Sentences with phrase «historic flight»

«This is a truly historic flight that opens up a new era of travel.

Solar Impulse Crosses Straits of Gibraltar and Into History At about 9:30 AM U.S. Central Time, the solar - powered, four - engined airplane crossed the narrow stretch of ocean that separates Europe from North Africa on historic flight.

She became enamored with flying while living in New York, becoming obsessed by the idea of crossing the Atlantic after reading about Charles Lindbergh's historic flight in May 1927.

«This is a truly historic flight that opens up a new era of travel,» said Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce, who was a passenger on the flight.

The computer and Internet were still a long way in the future when the Wright brothers made their historic flight.

The refurbished Tamale Airport in the Northern region is gearing up for an historic flight Friday afternoon as Hajj pilgrims for the first time fly direct from their base to Saudi Arabia.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

It was the spring of 1991, three decades after Gagarin's historic flight, and Sergei Krikalev and Anatoly Artsebarsky were there to follow in his footsteps.

When Sally Ride first took to space on June 18, 1983, I was working in Japan and missed the inevitable media coverage surrounding her historic flight.

Perhaps the quirkiest offering is Ivan Ivanovich, a life - sized mannequin that was flown in space twice to test capsules before Gagarin's historic flight.

Hints: John Glenn had one on his historic flight.

This historic flight, which lifted off from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, placed in orbit five UK - made satellites having an overall launch mass of 1443 kg.

Earth is recovering from World War III, and a brilliant inventor named Cochrane (James Cromwell, the tall farmer from «Babe») has adapted a missile for this historic flight.

I think being at Kitty Hawk, on December 17, 1903, and witnessing Wilbur and Orville make their historic flight would be pretty interesting.

The famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, used a Jenny to make his historic flight.

Mabel Boll, a glamorous society darling and former cigar girl, is ardent to make the historic flight.

In June 2005, Georgia Aquarium's first two whale sharks made a historic flight from Taiwan to Atlanta, Georgia.

This was certainly a historic flight as it was Southwest first time landing in Belize.

Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce (below), who landed at Heathrow yesterday morning with the first direct Perth - London service, said the new route was a major milestone for global aviation: «This is a truly historic flight that opens up a new era of travel.

A B777 - 300ER made the historic flight which, at more than 16 hours, should be one of the longest flights in commercial aviation today.

Yet even an historic flight into outer space doesn't excuse writing errors.