The phrase "a desire to fly" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a longing or aspiration to experience flight, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "Ever since she was a child, she had a desire to fly, dreaming of soaring through the skies like a bird."
Alternatives: "a longing to soar" or "an aspiration to take flight."
All of them convey not a desire to fly but a desire to see life differently.
Fuck!" More than once he expressed a desire to fly at "3-6" – 36,000 feet – and lamented the fact that Air France procedures recommended flying a little lower.
For starters, with government bureaucracy having entirely controlled space for the past few decades, it only seems fitting for people to have a desire to fly up there and do what could have been done only by a select few astronauts a short while ago.
He came home with a Purple Heart and a desire to fly jets, she said.
Contracts, reviews, and even lovely words on the page could no more replace that connection than could wings replace a desire to fly.
Polunin hurls himself through the overwrought choreography with the necessary vigour, and partners Osipova with brusque competence, but the piece is more revealing of his solipsism than of any desire to fly free.
She doesn't want to open a shop in, say, Hong Kong, because she doesn't feel comfortable delegating responsibility to an outsider, and she has no desire to fly there on a regular basis.
Skydiving has always been of interest to me as a natural consequence of my desire to fly.
Paul J. McNulty, whose office is prosecuting Moussaoui, said it was Moussaoui's "own desire to fly a plane into the White House". But he said the government had never said where it believed the airliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania farm field, United Flight 93, was headed.
His comments echoed those made by Carolyn McCall, the boss of easyJet, who said last week that the budget airline had seen a drop-off in passengers flying in and out of France but that travel was such a big part of people's lives that the desire to fly would resume soon.
