• Each country has regulations governing the number of hours a pilot can fly before having to take a rest.

    BBC: Air New Zealand pilot 'fell asleep' during flight

  • Drones are already able to take off, fly a mission and land without any human intervention, and a mechanical dog developed by the Pentagon can walk for 20 miles (32km) without a break and obey voice commands.

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  • Fly, take a vacation, stay in a hotel, go to a theme park, rent a car.

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  • Visitors either take a ferry there, or fly 30 minutes on an Aloha Island Air commuter plane that holds 37 passengers and makes 10 round-trips daily from Honolulu.

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  • Anglers make a cast, swing their fly through the pool, then take a step downstream.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "Joe is a young man, and it'll take him a bit of time to bed down at fly-half, " said Hare.

    BBC: Dusty Hare expects 'big season' for Christian Day

  • They are the biggest purchaser of the revolutionary Osprey tiltrotor, which pivots its engines so it can take off like a helicopter, but fly as far and fast as a fixed-wing plane.

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  • Jones failed to convert another penalty but the visitors began to take a grip on affairs and the fly-half fired the ball between the posts in the 58th minute to make it 16-9.

    BBC: Ulster 9-16 Scarlets

  • We already said that we will then transition to a NATO command and that our partners would take on a lot of the responsibility for the no-fly zone and striking targets on the ground.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing with Jay Carney and Ben Rhodes

  • In the basketball teams that fly charter, bosses take a back seat to the workers--literally.

    FORBES: How To Travel Like The Pros

  • The son of a Berkeley civil engineering professor, Pister first built tiny self-propelled robots, such as a mechanical fly that could take wing and transmit data.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • On Tuesday, the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially announced the private sector participants in its Transformer X project to build a Humvee that can take off, fly hundreds of miles, and land with little human input.

    FORBES: Connect

  • This aircraft, which has been called the most important aviation development since the invention of the jet engine, has the ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly horizontally at speeds far in excess of those possible for helicopters.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Skinner Misses Cheap Fix To Air Transport Crisis

  • Its ability to take off and land like a helicopter yet fly like an airplane, combined with its capacity to haul more troops and equipment farther, faster and with greater survivability than existing helicopters ensures that it will be of enormous value in future actions requiring long-range, swift and stealthy projection of ground forces.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Pentagon V-22 decision equals true transformation

  • Although I still can't look at a fruit fly without cringing just a little, I went on to take his biochemistry class and excelled.

    WSJ: Our Child Hates Math��and We Parents Are Partly to Blame

  • To have someone like Mike Catt, which I didn't have at Gloucester, who's an out-and-out (number) ten and can take me through exactly what they want from a fly-half, is fantastic.

    BBC: Exiles 'fresh start' excites Lamb

  • While it's still not possible to walk into your local Chevy dealer and fly out with a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Camaro that drives through all three dimensions, there are engineers across the world dedicating their lives to making the dream possible.

    CNN: The story

  • The decision looked harsh, but Connor at least found his range with the boot as the fly-half slotted two penalties to take a 6-3 lead into half-time.

    BBC: Ospreys 9-14 Scarlets

  • Morne Steyn finally levelled the scores on 36 minutes following an England infringement at the ruck, but the fly-half spurned the opportunity to take a three-point lead at the interval when he uncharacteristically dragged a 25m drop-kick attempt wide of the posts.

    BBC: England 11-21 South Africa

  • Some teams available to take off to Haiti couldn't fly in due to a continuing bottleneck at Port-au-Prince's airport.

    CNN: Survivors still being pulled from Haiti rubble

  • They were expected to come out with at least one stunning conclusion right off the bat, and they did: Human beings had about 32, 000 genes, give or take several thousand--not that much more than a fruit fly or a worm.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "Whatever is happening on the outside of him is like a fly buzzing around the room, something you occasionally take note of, " he said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The pressure continued after Pollock's return, though, and finally told as Priestland turned on the gas with an outside break, then an inside swerve to take him past full-back Jamie Smith for a try that the fly-half improved himself.

    BBC: Scarlets 25-8 Ulster

  • Sadoway thinks that could take a year to design, build, test, and make safe to fly.

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  • They also reviewed the ongoing discussions at NATO about the transition that will take place regarding command and control efforts and the enforcement of a no-fly zone.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • If that's what it will take for a successor to "30 Rock, " we better start making cars fly.

    NPR: A Grim Outlook For Sitcoms Post-'30 Rock'

  • The 36-year-old could come in as a straight replacement to partner Mathew Tait in the centres or he could take over the fly-half jersey, with Jonny Wilkinson moving to inside centre.

    BBC: Farrell ruled out of England side

  • According to Lockheed officials, VentureStar will be able to take cargo into space at a tenth of the current cost, and could be ready to fly every two or three days.

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  • Mike Bellotti and Chip Kelly's Ducks helped me reconnect with my alma mater, and I faithfully fly west with my family once a year to visit the campus and take in a game.

    WSJ: Chip Kelly: Torn Between Two Birds��Oregon Ducks, Philadelphia Eagles

  • Travel time becomes an even bigger issue when boards want to be seen to take a global perspective, as is now fashionable: in such cases, they like to fly their board out to one of the organisation's more distant operations.

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