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All right, here are media examples of “pie in the sky”:
1. There are times in the Alaska bush when even the heartiest native can’t take it any more, when dried salmon, caribou rump roast and seal jerky give a person the shivers.
That’s when the phone starts ringing hundreds of miles away at Airport Pizza, in the old gold rush town of Nome on Alaska's West Coast, CBS News correspondent Jerry Bowen reports. It’s the dream of former bush pilot Matt Tomter.
“I’ve flown muktuk, which is whale blubber, to gasoline, to just about anything you can imagine goes on airplanes here in Alaska,” says Tomter.
Now he’s flying pizza. It's delivered free — thanks to his old boss, Frontier Flying Service.
“Hang on, I got pizzas for the flight,” Tomter is often heard screaming as he runs out to a plane.
Sometimes, it’s a large sausage pie for Shishmaref, or a Canadian bacon pie for Kotzebue, or a spicy chicken for St. Lawrence Island, nearly 200 miles away. The price: just $30 a pie, any time of year.
Flying in pizza may seem like a pie in the sky idea, but it’s proving really popular. An average of 10 pizzas each day goes flying out to the villages. There’s even on-time delivery — as long as the planes are on time.
- Alaskans Savor ‘Pie In The Sky’, CBSNews.com, October 18, 2006.
2. Putting a harness on ocean winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the vessel’s propulsion and to conserve fuel.
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