The Okanagan Valley is a four-hour drive from Vancouver, or a quick flight from Seattle or Vancouver to Kelowna International Airport.

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But if you can afford 75 inches of TV, you can also afford a quick flight to Seoul to pick one up.

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Then spend your last few days in the Orkney Islands, clustered not far off the mainland and reachable either via a half-day ferry or quick flight to Kirkwall.

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We took it for a quick flight through some canyons in an F-16 and, though we nearly blacked out a few times and came close to losing our cookies thanks to the over-sensitive head tracking setup, we have to admit the HOTAS was quite a joy to use.

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If done just three times a week for two hours a flight--say, a quick trip to Santa Barbara's Elephant Grill for burritos and back--who knows?

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Following Wednesday's flight, Tony Navarra, Globalstar's president of global operations, was quick to thank the Soyuz team and Arianespace, the French company that markets commercial Soyuz launches through its Starsem subsidiary.

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Although military leaders were quick to grasp the warfighting potential of airplanes after the Wright Brothers proved the feasibility of flight, it took decades before they were convinced there should be a separate military service dedicated to air power.

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Last year the company had a genuine hit with its quick-paced strategy title, Age of Empires, released a vastly improved version of its Flight Simulator and had solid offerings in the military strategy and racing simulation genres.

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