In August, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, who is said to fear flying, traveled from Pyongyang to Moscow and back by rail for a visit with Russian leaders, a 24-day trip that allowed the Russians to show off the 6,000-mile 6,000-milerian Railroad.
After his widely publicized refusal to keep flying, he first traveled by rail.
Whatever it was, the 150-pound would-be flying synthetic sandwich traveled exactly four feet off a 22-foot-high platform before plunging bun-first into the Hudson River yesterday.
Those in the entourage who don't fly on Air Force One or with the press in the accompanying "zoo plane" (which is paid for by the media who fly in it), traveled on military aircraft or commercial airlines, the White House said.
Between 1981 and 2011, space shuttles flew 135 missions, traveled 872,906,379 km (542,398,878 miles), and launched 355 different people (306 men and 49 women) from 16 countries into orbit.
Even dicier is the question of whether a state can be included if you've only flown over it, traveled through its air space.
The women also lacked the funds to fly, so they traveled to tournaments in caravans of four or five automobiles when the interstate highway system was in its infancy.
Hussein Ali then flew to Brazil, traveled for three months across South and Central America on foot and by bus, and turned himself in at the US-Mexico border, where he told officers he was seeking asylum.
He said the aliens traveled by flying saucer and revealed that they were the Elohim mentioned in the Bible -- not God, but beings from afar who had engineered the creation of the human race on Earth from inert DNA.
Although Russia denied involvement, the downing of a passenger jet flying on a heavily traveled international route could sharply increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is accused by the United States, its allies and the Ukrainian government of backing the separatists.
An enthusiastic fly fisherman, he traveled to Alaska, South America, Russia, and other remote spots to fish.
