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  • Those who have tested the jetpack say that with only the controls in front of you, flying a jetpack is a real free-flight experience.

    Where's My Jetpack? Right Here | Universe Today 2010

  • On the ground, the game is a cover-based stop-and-pop shooter; in the sky, it's free-flight aerial combat.

    Wired Top Stories 2010

  • Air routes over active volcanic regions will continue to be heavily used, and industry changes such as more free-flight routing and extended twin-engine operations will increase the need for ash-hazard information.

    Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash 2009

  • Their programs usually include free-flight demonstrations with one or more of their birds.

    seanan_mcguire: Filk Fund DVD now available for purchase! seanan_mcguire 2009

  • With free-flight routing, where in-flight changes to an aircraft's route can be made by a pilot rather than air-traffic control, advisories about ash-cloud locations and trajectories will have to take into account greater variability in flight tracks likely to be affected.

    Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash 2009

  • It was supposed to be the vehicle's first free-flight, with a landing over at Roger's Dry Pond aka Edwards AFB, and for once the Mojave weather was actually cooperative.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2006 Archives 2006

  • Unknown to the Drake group, another team of engineers was also busy in late 1961 exploring the design of a free-flight lunar landing simulator.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Unknown to the Drake group, another team of engineers was also busy in late 1961 exploring the design of a free-flight lunar landing simulator.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Unknown to the Drake group, another team of engineers was also busy in late 1961 exploring the design of a free-flight lunar landing simulator.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • Unknown to the Drake group, another team of engineers was also busy in late 1961 exploring the design of a free-flight lunar landing simulator.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

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