Nasa spacecraft New Horizons has "phoned home" from nearly three billion miles away after its successful fly-past of Pluto.
Although the French aviation pioneer Henri Farman had flown off the water in 1910, the Curtiss Model E of 1912 was the first truly successful flying boat.
By virtue of its high-profile charity fundraising campaigns, and a successful fly-on-the-wall TV documentary series, it has become synonymous in the public eye with excellence in child health.
In 1990 he was finally allowed to go to the US, and in 1993, after a successful Flying Dutchman with the Washington National Opera, though still almost entirely unknown in the US, he took over as music director of the WNO and of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
NASA's recent history with Mars has been a spotty one — after a string of successful fly-bys and probe landings in the early-to-mid 70s, NASA returned to the red planet with the Pathfinder mission in 1997 (I was in third grade at the time, and utterly, utterly enthralled by the whole thing), but such incidents seem to be the exceptions.
Rather than emulate the popular space theme of previous successful flying games like Asteroids and Defender, he wanted to offer an alternative to spaceships.
As new owners, Ausable Wulff and Brassie Nymph are purchasing a mildly successful fly shop, remodeling it, re-packaging it, and turning it into a successful destination location for fly fishers across the south.
Successful fly fishermen learn to "match the hatch".
This study analysed the role of Leishmania chitinase in certain key aspects of the Leishmania-sand fly relationship that contribute to a successful sand fly infection and transmission to the mammalian host.
Most of us yearn for a hassle-free flying experience, but apparently a 9-year-old boy from the Twin Cities knows the secret to successful travel: Fly solo and without a ticket.
