The phrase "a flyboy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a pilot, especially in a military context, or someone who is enthusiastic about flying.
Example: "The young recruit always dreamed of becoming a flyboy, soaring through the skies in a fighter jet."
Alternatives: "a pilot" or "an aviator".
The other adviser was 53-year-old Mark Salter, a brilliant, pugnacious writer who has composed all of McCain's books and major speeches and in a more encompassing sense is McCain's definer, looking after what Salter himself calls the "metanarrative" of McCain's transformation from a reckless flyboy and P.O.W. to a courageous patriot.
And Senator John McCain of Arizona is the hell-raiser who hides an introspective bent behind his pose as a cocky flyboy.
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Klein's piece portrays McCain as a cocky flyboy who got into flight school despite lousy grades in Annapolis because he came from naval royalty, his grandfather and father were four-star Admirals.
"So, who is more likely to get Latino voter support in November: a former National Guard flyboy from Texas or a former Navy officer from Massachusetts?" the column asked.
"It's an opportunity to buy," said one fleshy flyboy, a slice of steak tucked into his cheek like a plug of chewing tobacco.
Out bounded the cocky, rule-breaking, daredevil flyboy, a man navigating the Highway to the Danger Zone, out along the edges where he was born to be, the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.
The epitome of reinvention for any diva-in-waiting is Madonna, who has offered herself to audiences dressed as a Marilyn Monroe platinum blonde, a nun, a mistress of sadomasochism, a Vargas pin-up, a cowgirl and, on a recent cover of Vanity Fair, a World War II flyboy.
