Our new fleet of pilot-free planes would be directed from space and would range from small devices permitting a squadron leader to see over a hill to much larger craft that could deliver powerful weapons to a distant battlefield with tremendous speed.

Suspended in midair, Ms. Kawai's fleet ranges from a large airliner to fighter jets and biplanes, all stitched together from assorted fabrics - underwear, baby blankets, flannel pajamas - that remind you that patchwork is among the oldest forms of appropriation.

In the early 870s, the Cretan raids reached a new intensity: their fleets, often commanded by Byzantine renegades, ranged the Aegean and further afield, reaching the Dalmatian coasts.

The fleet ranges from large oceanographic research vessels capable of exploring the world's deepest ocean, to smaller ships responsible for charting the shallow bays and inlets of the United States.

Its fleet ranged from the Cessna 150 and 172 through the Cessna 402, Piper Cheyenne and Beech 18 to the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, Shorts 330 and DC-3.

The fleet ranges in size from 34 to 70 feet in length.

The fleet ranged from mainly Dennis Darts (high floor and low floor, with a variety of bodywork), to Mercedes minibuses and Optare Solos.

The company's fleet ranges from seven-passenger Cessna Citations, which are made by Textron's Cessna Aircraft Company, to the top-of-the-line models like Gulfstream V's, manufactured by a unit of General Dynamics, and the new BBJ's.

NetJets' fleet ranges from the seven-seat Cessna Citation Bravo to the 14-passenger Gulfstream 550 and the 18-passenger Boeing Business Jet, which is essentially a Boeing 737 (and which costs over $40 million if you want to buy the whole thing).

The fleets of Ulthuan ranged the seas destroying Dark Elf slaving ships.