Rather than use fixed turbines to generate power, Makani has been experimenting with "flying wings" adorned with several smaller turbines that act as propellers as the craft takes off.
Engineers are developing giant solar-powered flying wings that are remote-controlled and designed to remain aloft at high altitudes for weeks, months, or even years -- nonstop.
The band, whose 14 UK number ones include 1999 hit Flying Without Wings, have sold more than 44 million records worldwide.
Let me put it this way: If Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata was a character in one of his own games, right now he'd be flashing colors, shooting fireballs from his fingers and flying around on magical wings.
Apparently, these deficit hawks only spread their wings when they are flying in full public view.
Gabriel's extraordinary rainbow wings echo the dove flying down through the church.
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But then again, perhaps it was just the call of a crane flying overhead, the flapping of wings and the drone of the insects in the forest.
Dr Dial, though, thinks his data point to an avian third way: that wings are for more than flying (or gliding, for that matter).
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But more red tape and higher taxes, if unchecked, risk clipping the wings of Britain's high-flying firms.
In the early nervous days of flying, designers were for ever concerned that the wings would fall off.
Smith-Barry earned his wings on the first course held at the Central Flying School (CFS), in Upavon, Wiltshire, in 1912.
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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.
In one game, Pilot Wings Resorts, players take the wheel of an airplane and cruise around an island, flying through hoops or popping balloons for points.
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birds flying the gauntlet of the guns.
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