An aircraft flying at a faster speed consumes more fuel per distance than the same aircraft flying at a slower speed.

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Flying at subsonic speed, the needle-nosed jet flew without passengers on Saturday from a military air base in Istres, near Marseille, and landed at Paris' Orly Airport.

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This means it can hover like a helicopter, but when flying forwards can reduce the speed of the main rotor and let the wings provide part of the lift.

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Meanwhile, a report in France suggested the pilots were perhaps flying at the "wrong speed" for the violent thunderstorm they flew into early on Monday before the Airbus A330's systems failed.

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They are gathered up and injected into the quantum experiment at speeds of around five meters per second - just a hundredth the speed of the molecules flying around in the air.

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Many a high flying brand has crashed and burned with frightening speed.

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He drew a parallel to GE's work with the aircraft industry, since many decades ago flying was considered a risky business, but the industry evolved so that even as the speed, distance and number of flights increased, overall safety improved greatly.

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Upon reaching this speed, you lift the yoke back, pitch up 10 degrees, and you're flying.

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