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  • Aircraft designer Mikhail Simonov, 81, whose supremely maneuverable, heavily armed and far-flying Sukhoi fighter jet became an staple of the Soviet military and a cash cow for post-communist Russia, died March 4 in Moscow.

    Mikhail Simonov, designer of innovative Soviet fighter jet, dies at 81 2011

  • When US Air tried to become a full-line generalist, the company ran up against American, United, and Delta, and it lost money, falling into the ditch between the far-flying generalists and the specialists.

    The Rule of Three Jagdish Sheth 2002

  • When US Air tried to become a full-line generalist, the company ran up against American, United, and Delta, and it lost money, falling into the ditch between the far-flying generalists and the specialists.

    The Rule of Three Jagdish Sheth 2002

  • I recalled a time when crows were murdered relentlessly because they might be acting as Soulcatcher's far-flying eyes.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • Commander Stephen Marusko leaned over a console and scowled at the demon-green eye of a radar screen displaying a real-time feed from Tango Seven-niner, the Hawkeye orbiting between the CBG and Rodeo, the carrier's far-flying scouts.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • The planets that revolve round the sun, the far-flying comets, the most distant stars -- these formed the field which from that time was to lie open to the investigations of man.

    Wonderful Balloon Ascents

  • Yet his lips called continually and his voice grew shrill and dry-sounding, like the voice of far-flying water-fowl.

    Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Katharine Berry [Editor] Judson

  • There is something thrilling about the idea which appeals to the imagination -- the receiving of mysterious messages from afar, through the air, and sending back from your little instrument the far-flying answers.

    Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Victor Mapes 1906

  • _A_ is a far-flying steel-pointed bobtail, very good in wind.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • The old Anna Maria was far on her passage, and already there were birds about her, the far-flying scouts of the land, and the color of the water had changed to a softer and more radiant blue.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

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