Every place I've flown a hawk makes the world new, turning it into somewhere more complicated, less human-centered, a place brimming with nonhuman lives and motives and significances.
Vocabulary: settle, adhesive, mimics, slickest, palm, soles, capillary, negligible, replicate, pliable, nacre, matrix, inorganic, mortar, reservoirs Extension Activities: 1. Study the way different birds fly (a hummingbird versus a hawk, a pigeon versus a goose).
The last he remembers, he was flying a Black Hawk in Afghanistan, and the helicopter went down.
September 2 was a historic day for the GRIP project, as it marked the first time that NASA had flown a Global Hawk drone over a fully formed hurricane.
Mr. Rather visits L. Tammy Duckworth, a retired Army major who was shot down in Iraq while flying a Black Hawk helicopter.
From Matthew's perspective, is flying a Global Hawk closer to the world of Top Gun or to playing video game?
Ms. Quinn was standing beside a woman who had faced much more harrowing situations – Lindsay Melki, an Army veteran who flew a Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 – to announce what she would do as mayor in her first 100 days in office to help veterans.
Every day Matthew flies a Global Hawk remotely from his computer console, steering it with his mouse over a militarily significant part of the globe, from where the aircraft's powerful sensors stream back precision images of enemy targets to air force headquarters.
FOR anyone who has ever dreamed of flying like a hawk over buildings, streets and trees, a Web-based program offers bird's-eye views of the planet.
Captain Carr, who is 26 and will take her husband's name, flies a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, which is a passenger carrier and a utility craft.
