1.   My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.

2.   So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies.

3.   The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.

4.   The statue of a dark, hooded figure stands in the Campo di Fiori piazza in central Rome, not far as the crow flies from the Vatican itself.

5.   Shanghai is several miles away as the crow flies, but a ship under pilot takes about five hours to get there.