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Normally planes don't go to the polar post from February to October because of the dangers of flying in the pitch-dark and cold.

Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food.

Teamwork improves with time: America's National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew's first day of flying together.

The 50-year-old father of three and king to 17 million Dutch citizens calls flying a"hobby".

The aircraft is massive as long as a football field and as tall as 6 double decker buses and capable of flying for up to 5 days.

The airlander will need to have 200 hours' flying time before being allowed to fly by the aviation administration.

In a chaotic two days of flying, the rescue team flew 3,000 miles roundtrip from the British station Rothera to pick up the workers at the Amundsen-Scott station at the South Pole.

They have strong wings capable of flying long distances.

As trees outgrow their ideal habitats in the face of climate change, these flying ecosystem engineers could be a big help in replanting trees.

However, the flying car has always remained the ultimate symbol of personal transport freedom.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.

That means when a golfer tells himself "Don't hit the ball into the water", his mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water.

After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

At space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模擬) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

But Mann thinks Terrafugia has come closer than anyone to making the flying car a reality.

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

Inventors have been trying to make flying cars since the 1930s, according to Robert Mann, an airline industry expert.

Said Monday that its new flying car has completed its first flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of selling the flying car within the next year.

Other birds flying in the up wash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.

since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape —expend less energy.

Think of those fleeting moments when you look out of an aeroplane window and realise that you are flying, higher than a bird.

Whether the separation distances involved would satisfy air-traffic-control regulations is another matter although a working group at the International civil Aviation Organisation has included the possibility of formation flying in a blueprint for new ope