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They have such exuberant and otherworldly shapes that they occasionally deceive human senses, too: In their petals we see what appear to be tiny, dancing people, monkey’s faces, spiders, and even birds in flight.
Now, at the standard rate of fuel consumption, I would like to see the computer trace the flight path of this rocket and see how it can determine, at any instant, say at the end of 40 seconds, the amount of fuel remaining, and the velocity at that set instant.
The feather is one of the most astonishing pieces of technology invented by the natural world, and for centuries, this feather has helped birds to keep dry, to keep warm and even power flight.
And in that amount of memory someone programmed a full flight simulation program.
I spent ages flying this flight simulator, and I honestly believed I could fly airplanes by the end of it.
That sounds ridiculous, but about 200 years ago, experts were of the opinion that flight wouldn't exist, even 120 years ago, and if you moved faster than you could run, you would instantly die.
Like Joyce, a flight attendant supervisor whose boss, in meetings every day, would tell her about the porn that he'd watched the night before while drawing penises on his notepad.
Throughout his career, he would celebrate that day as his anniversary day, his cherry tree day, and he would regularly read and reread the works of Verne and of Wells in order to renew his inspiration and his commitment over the decades of labor and effort that would be required to realize the first part of his dream: the flight of a liquid fuel rocket, which he finally achieved in 1926.
And we worked very closely with the whole thing being a team effort, and with wonderful results like that flight.
Oh, that was only a minute, but I think you'd be safe to have that near the end of the flight, perhaps.
But I remember on the flight back on my last trip, I remember breaking down in tears and thinking to myself, if any kid in the West, in the western world, went through a day of what any of those kids have gone through, they will be in therapy for the rest of their natural lives.
So we opened the world’s first flight school.
So we’ve run two flight schools.
I think this is a reasonable sequence of events that happened in the progression of the technology of powered flight.
And then we actually do the actual building and the flight.
We're entering a second generation of no progress in terms of human flight in space.
I think what we'll do is we'll see a successful, very successful, private space flight industry.
OK, we'll talk just a little bit about commercial development for human space flight.
And what that means is before we know it, the progress in human space flight, with no taxpayer dollars, will be at a level of about five times as much as the current NASA budgets for human space flight.
We're a bit like pilots navigating a flight path for a hundred thousand passengers.
And in the case of the Canadian artist The Weeknd, we translated this flight path literally into an origami paper folding airplane that took off over the heads of the audience, broke apart in mid-flight, complications, and then rose out of the ashes restored at the end of the show.
And like any flight, the most delicate part is the liftoff, the beginning, because when you design a pop concert, the prime material that you're working with is something that doesn't take trucks or crew to transport it.
(Music: U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name") Bono: I wanna run I want to hide I wanna tear down the walls That hold me inside Es Devlin: The end of the show is like the end of a flight.
I flew home, I'm on the flight with my little black book and I took, you know, pages and pages of notes about it.
A vertical-takeoff aircraft is not the safest vehicle during the test flight program.
At least for the hover, and the low-speed flight.
So, I booked myself a flight to Boston in '95, 19 years old and definitely the dark horse candidate at this race.
There was a flight, a Lufthansa flight from Munich to New York.
The flight was going very well.
On your way to the airport, if you pick up your boarding pass, it can tell you that your flight is delayed, that the gate has changed, etc.
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