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I couldn't go back to my friend Jeff's house for the night because I had an early flight to Europe the next morning, and I needed to get my passport and my suitcase.
So I raced home in the snow and ice, 40 minutes, got my passport, raced back to the airport, I made it just in time, but they had given away my seat to someone else, so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight.
Special chemicals called stress hormones run through your body, giving you more oxygen and power to run away from danger or to face it and fight for your life, hence the term "fight or flight."
But when you don't fight, or take flight, you face the plight.
Exactly how feathered dinosaurs took flight is still a bit of a mystery.
So with H1N1, there was this guy that decided to go on the plane and in the matter of a single flight actually spread the disease to 17 other people.
And then there was this other guy with SARS, who managed to go on a three-hour flight and spread the disease to 22 other people.
So it's really now a matter of taking this through to certification, flight testing, and going through all of these regulatory approvals processes.
Shifting body size and content, super speed, flight, super strength, immortality, and invisibility.
Nah, I don't think so! Now, assuming you were granted the ability to float and the speed to move around efficiently, let's discuss the height of your flight.
The U.S. had to do something first, and in May 1961, a month after Gargarin's flight, he announced the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
In 2008, Burhan Hassan, age 17, boarded a flight from Minneapolis to the Horn of Africa.
Once attraction is confirmed, your bloodstream is flooded with norepinephrine, activating your fight or flight system.
In practice, computer models using these principles can often predict the location and intensity of sonic booms for given atmospheric conditions and flight trajectories, and there is ongoing research to mitigate their effects.
In the meantime, supersonic flight over land remains prohibited.
The ball started its flight in an apparently direct route, with air flowing on both sides and slowing it down.
The Wright Brothers built on history's failed attempts at flight, including some of their own, before designing a successful airplane.
In the short term, stress can be advantageous, but when activated too often or too long, your primitive fight or flight stress response not only changes your brain but also damages many of the other organs and cells throughout your body.
Whether it's an anxiety-filled night of being chased through the woods by a bear or fighting off a ninja in a dark alley, these dreams allow you to practice your fight or flight instincts and keep them sharp and dependable in case you'll need them in real life.
Their aim is to push the boundary of what can be achieved with autonomous flight.
Like other fixed-wing aircraft, it is efficient in forward flight, much more so than helicopters and variations thereof.
For example, one such question would be, what is the minimum number of moving parts needed for controlled flight?
While Daedalus stayed carefully to the midway course, Icarus was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of flight and overcome with the feeling of divine power that came with it.
If refugees were simply allowed to travel directly and seek asylum in Europe, we would avoid that, and there's a way of doing that through something called a humanitarian visa, that allows people to collect a visa at an embassy or a consulate in a neighboring country and then simply pay their own way through a ferry or a flight to Europe.
A study of experienced golfers revealed that those who hit chip shots while focused on the flight of the ball performed significantly better than those who focused on the motion of their arms.
(Cello music) (Music ends) On the flight here, I was reminded about my mom.
What we found was that flight simulators had been proven over and over again to be far more effective when used in combination with real, in-flight training to train the pilots.
This was something humans could exploit on a consistent basis, and the birds’ weak flight capabilities and limited need for space made them easy to capture and contain.
Though the common ancestor of all modern birds could fly, many different bird species have independently lost their flight.
Flight can have incredible benefits, especially for escaping predators, hunting, and traveling long distances.
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