It whisks passengers 153 meters up to the summit of the Hammetschwand in less than one minute.

Today, boats operated by Arcorp Ferries whisk passengers across the Hudson on weekdays.

In eight or nine minutes, the helicopters will whisk passengers straight to a gate at the airport, where they can walk right onto their planes, he said.

There are excursions that whisk passengers farther and farther away from the ship (Antarctica, anyone?)

A 15-person gondola will whisk passengers between the mall and the slopes.

They hope to whisk passengers through terminals more quickly, redefining what industry executives glumly call "the airport experience."

Modern air travel whisks passengers around the world so quickly that fruit flies and other insect pests tend to arrive alive.

A chairlift whisks passengers to the top of Zinken mountain, where they board little wheeled bobsleds to race 2.2km downhill around hairpin bends.

The futuristic 'mag-lev' bullet train is expected to be whisking passengers between Tokyo and Osaka at 500kph within a decade.

The sleek, bulbous-nosed new bullet trains here look like they are designed to whisk passengers across wide-open spaces.