Others are training as naval aviators who will fly combat missions over the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere.
Pilots there text with controllers both over oceans and over domestic skies.
That strike may well turn out to be the Alliance's final significant act in the skies over Libya.
Once a year, the international racing set descends on Louisville, clogging the skies over the city with private jets.
She flew missions delivering relief supplies after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, as well as cloud-seeding aircraft to ensure clear skies over Beijing during the Olympics.
The skies over Aleppo that used to buzz to the sound of attack helicopters and the roar of fighter jets are largely clear, at least for now.
Everything looked good except the skies over the launch pad.
The skies over American cities were heavy with smoke, and six days a week tens of millions of begrimed, overalled workers poured through factory gates, lunch pails in hand.
Months later I had recovered enough to fly a test model of the Eclipse 500 jet in the skies over Albuquerque and climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge with Steve Forbes.
Armed with his cell phone number, they circled the skies over the New York area, intercepting a call to Emirates Airlines reservations, before scrambling to catch him at John F.
FORBES: Surveillance cameras were useful for catching Faisal Shahzad after all
"To untangle the skies over New York, we've improved our traffic control, we added a new departure route from the metro area, and capped the total number of flights, " he said.
That low-flying helicopter crisscrossing the skies over the San Francisco Bay Area for the next three days is gathering data on background radiation levels, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.
While Predators and Reapers have logged more than 1 million hours of combat patrols in the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq, where insurgents don't have the ability to shoot them down, they would be likely to face challenges in the more contested airspace over the Pacific.
But over land, where skies and radio frequencies are more congested and the need for better communications is strong, the switch has been painfully slow.
As aviation executives haggled on the ground, fighter jets took to the cloudy skies and flew over the airfield in aerial displays.
SA-6 which brought down an American aircraft over Bosnia in 1995, means that western bombers will have a harder time weaving through the Serbian skies than they do when swooping over Iraq.
So we turned left and flew over lower mountains, under clearer skies.
You know, these people thought the worst was over and suddenly to see those skies darkening again and for that rain to come back again and the winds to pick up again, it's going to terrify them I'd imagine.
There had been over two inches of rain in Leeds overnight and overcast skies gave even greater incentive for the bowlers, but Australia captain Ricky Ponting opted to bat first.
For example, "blue skies", curiosity-driven research into lasers over 50 years ago now has applications in everything from DVD players to surgery.
With SARS contained and the Iraq war over (more or less), will people again return to the skies?
Indeed, one frequent criticism of the Kosovars, and of their intellectuals, is that, especially last year, they hugely over-estimated the strength of the Kosovo Liberation Army, praised it to the skies (in newspapers such as Koha Ditore, among others) and puffed it up when it was nowhere near ready to take on the Serbs.
应用推荐