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Then these two fellows came along, and they were flying kites to develop the control systems that would ultimately enable powered human flight.
And their experiments with kites led to this momentous occasion, where we powered up and took off for the first-ever 12-second human flight.
And the real significant thing here is we're developing the control systems, as did the Wright brothers, that would enable sustained, long-duration flight.
And it's gotten me out of so many tough positions like, "When's the last flight out of Chicago?"
Currently in Detroit, our population is under 700,000, of which 84 percent are African American, and due to decades of disinvestment and capital flight from the city into the suburbs, there is a scarcity in Detroit.
And as others like him pursued their own version of the American dream, white flight became common in the South Bronx and in many cities around the country.
Fight or flight.
This is the nuptial flight, when thousands of reproduction-capable male and female ants, called alates, take wing for the first and last time.
What does that mean for the origin of flapping flight?
She took flight from the world, withdrawing her half of the cosmic energy that kept the Earth turning.
NASA looked to Draper and his group of over 400 engineers to invent the first compact digital flight computer, the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Hamilton led the team that built the on-board flight software for both the Command and Lunar Modules.
This marked the first time flight software communicated directly— and asynchronously— with a pilot.
Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent example being my otherwise wonderful flight from Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in "India, Africa and other countries."
We have to fly at a special incline to make the measurements; we hire military and test pilots to do the maneuvering; we need special flight clearance.
If I put a boarding pass, it will show me where the flight gate is.
When I'm going back, I can just use my boarding pass to check how much my flight has been delayed, because at that particular time, I'm not feeling like opening my iPhone, and checking out a particular icon.
And actually, we changed completely our flight plan.
That means to load the batteries during the flight, in order to spend the night on the batteries, and fly the next day again.
I think you need a pilot in the plane that can talk to the universities, that can talk to students, talk to politicians during the flight, and really make it a human adventure.
But, of equal importance, as we fly through the atmosphere of Mars, we transmit that journey, the first flight of an airplane outside of the Earth, we transmit those images back to Earth.
We believe that in a one-hour flight we can rewrite the textbook on Mars by making high-resolution measurements of the atmosphere, looking for gases of biogenic origin, looking for gases of volcanic origin, studying the surface, studying the magnetism on the surface, which we don't understand, as well as about a dozen other areas.
And let me conclude by saying not too far from here, right down the road in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, a little more than 100 years ago history was made when we had the first powered flight of an airplane on Earth.
We are on the verge right now to make the first flight of an airplane outside the Earth's atmosphere.
And back in the early 20th century, the pursuit of powered man flight was like the dot com of the day.
And, eventually, on December 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers took flight, and no one was there to even experience it.
And further proof that Langley was motivated by the wrong thing: the day the Wright brothers took flight, he quit.
How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?
This software allows interactive use, so this actual flight path and movie that we see here was actually flown live.
You can get on a flight in London, you can end up in Bangalore later today.
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