But parafoils have been widely tested by the military and others, and they can be flown over relatively long distances.
When an MRI revealed that I'd torn 90 percent of my right quadriceps, I was flown back to Washington.
Normally, she said, they'd have flown to Cape Town, but there was Nicholas's school trunk to think of, and all his tennis and cricket things.
Rossy had never flown for longer than ten minutes and had to calibrate his equipment and weight to perfection since even the addition of a few hundred grammes would have affected his flying ability.
But Clinton would not have flown to Pyongyang without the backing of Obama.
The army, navy and federal police are being flown to the scene with digging machinery and rescue dogs.
Walsh had flown in this morning from sat behind the conference table next to a portable tape recorder and two microphones.
and at last, one fine morning, we weighed anchor, which was about all that we could manage, and stood out of North Inlet, the same colours flying that the captain had flown and fought under at the palisade.
Following the Buenos Aires relay, the torch will be put aboard a Chinese jetliner and flown to Tanzania.
The cargo ship’s horn hooted, flags were flown and flares fired to celebrate the release on April 11th of the skipper who had given himself up to win the release of his crew.
"In the early 1990s, in partnership with Boeing Co., it contracted to Build the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter (first flown 1997)."
Five thousand people were flown to Paris during the Easter weekend.
Most famously he invited dozens of journalists to a press conference in South Waziristan in 2008, a few days after the army had flown journalists to the same area.
The F135 is the most powerful engine ever flown in a jet fighter.
