Sentences with phrase «fly over a portion»

Traveling by helicopter from the main American base of McMurdo Station on Ross Island to the Dry Valleys, researchers fly over a portion of the Ross Ice Shelf and then a corner of the mesmerizing white spread of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is the largest in the world.

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In none of their empire were the Portuguese able to take advantage of the right of patronage as effectively as did the Spaniards in the vast portion of the earth's surface over which their flag flew.

Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center prepare the non-stick coatings that will be put on portions of the wing of a research aircraft ready to fly in sticky buggy late summer weather over Virginia.

The action is framed through his narrated memories of her while he's flying over or trekking across portions of Antarctica.

This 1982 example's odd aesthetic is as unmistakable today as it was over four decades ago, but the 928's futuristic design wasn't just meant to wow onlookers, though it does that quite well — designer Wolfgang Möbius Möbius» masterpiece garnered stare - downs from countless bystanders and plenty of camera phones flew up as we cruised the ocean front boulevards of the Westhampton portion of Long Island, New York.

Over 5,000 waivers were issued to commercial entities, a significant portion of which were used for the real estate business, but only licensed pilots were eligible to fly commercially.