My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.