• As the skies become more crowded, technology could be used to enable the size of such "safety spheres" to be reduced - or rather, to allow planes to fly closer to each other.

    BBC: Sowing the seeds of tomorrow's aircraft

  • The Saudis approved Pentagon use of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), a multibillion-dollar U.S.-built facility at the Prince Sultan base, to direct the air war against the Taliban but did not offer to allow American bombers to fly combat missions from Saudi bases.

    CNN: Do We Still Need the Saudis?

  • Once the decision was made to allow him to fly, it is simply confounding that he was able to bring high explosives on board with relative ease.

    CNN: Blame game won't stop terrorism

  • She and her sister gradually accumulated enough seniority to allow them to fly around the world on their airline passes, and they found that single-women tourists were about as rare as female businesswomen on airplanes.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'When Everything Changed'

  • Fargo said it was also important to allow players to just fly around in these levels.

    FORBES: Game Veteran Brian Fargo Gives Arcade Classic Choplifter An HD Upgrade

  • The move to allow some aircraft to fly again was agreed at a meeting of the oil and gas industry's Helicopter Safety Steering Group in Aberdeen on Thursday.

    BBC: Nine Super Puma helicopters flying again after ditching

  • Tom Williams faked injury to allow fly-half Nick Evans to return to the field in a cup tie and director or rugby Dean Richards has since stood down.

    BBC: Harlequins chairman stands down

  • The now notorious incident occurred during the Heineken Cup tie against Leinster in April when wing Tom Williams faked injury to allow fly-half Nick Evans to return to the field.

    BBC: Richards ban to extend worldwide

  • The "trim tab, " which enables the pilot to manually manipulate controls such as the rudder, would allow the crew to fly the aircraft safely.

    CNN: Could lightning have brought down Air France plane?

  • Brian Doherty of DSD said the professor had a heart condition that did not allow him to fly.

    BBC: Social Development Committee

  • The trend toward smaller jets is quietly occurring over the Atlantic, too, as new advances now allow airlines to fly over the ocean with two engines instead of three or four, which makes flying smaller aircraft on the routes more feasible.

    BBC: Decoding airline sizes

  • New technology that would allow more planes to fly but put air-traffic controllers out of work is blocked by unions.

    ECONOMIST: Is more regulatory reform the answer?

  • The merits of these are that they allow any airline to fly where and when it wants between two countries, with no limits on capacity or need for official approval of fares.

    ECONOMIST: Why the Americans are happy and the British are moaning

  • By all accounts, the agreement would allow the U.S. to fly cruise missiles, fighter jets or unmanned armed drones against targets in Yemen with the consent of that government.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.

    ECONOMIST: Artificial intelligence

  • The search giant revealed it is working on technology that it will allow it to translate images of text, on the fly, into another language.

    FORBES: Google To Translate Text With Camera Phones

  • Advocates say that a no-fly zone would allow them to cross the border into rebel-held territory, where Western governments could channel money through them, enabling them to begin to govern.

    NEWYORKER: The Thin Red Line

  • In his speech, DeLay ran through a litany of what he described as atrocities by the Iraqi leader, including the use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, firing at U.S. aircraft in the no-fly zones, its refusal to allow weapons inspections by U.N. teams, and the persecution of religious leaders in southern Iraq.

    CNN: DeLay endorses action against Saddam

  • Grouping the nation's patients and livers into fewer, larger regions might allow broader allocation without the risks of having to fly organs across the country (even with the best care, livers can last only half a day on ice).

    ECONOMIST: States v. Washington

  • The UK government has said it will not allow him safe passage out of the country to fly to Ecuador, while the Swedish foreign ministry insisted the sole reason they want Mr Assange extradited is so the allegations against him can be properly investigated.

    BBC: Profile: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

  • Pilots are required to fly under the direction of air traffic controllers but federal regulations allow for some deviation in emergency situations.

    WSJ: NTSB: Pilot action, icing led to NJ plane crash

  • If successful, the strikes will allow U.S. and its allies to send military aircraft to enforce a broader no-fly zone over Libya's northern tier, although Adm.

    WSJ: Strikes Designed to Knock Out Libyan Air Defenses

  • Proponents of a no-fly zone say that it would not just protect civilians but also allow a new government to flourish.

    NEWYORKER: The Thin Red Line

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