The phrase "attaching wings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to suggest giving someone or something the ability to soar or achieve greater heights, often in a creative or inspirational context.
Example: "The artist's vision was so powerful that it felt like she was attaching wings to her audience's imagination."
Alternatives: "granting flight" or "giving wings".
Three Boeing-made military aircraft use castings for such tough assignments as attaching wings to the fuselage.
A number of plans were made by the War Office for the design in light of this decision, including equipping reconnaissance units with them, or the unsuccessful idea of attaching wings to them so that aircraft could tow them as gliders into position to support airborne forces; eventually it was decided to hand over those tanks that had been built to the Royal Air Force for use in airfield defence.
Birds and bears may work better starting with a ball and then attaching wings, arms, and legs.
We needed a way to visualize the viewers as silhouettes in front of the display so that we could augment their shadows, selectively removing parts or attaching wings.
ReprintsA smaller model flew three years ago, so the theory of an aircraft that is not a long tube with attached wings has been put to the test.
But, in her words, "I did leave behind a chair to which I'd attached wings that you could slip your arms into".
Photography writes with light, and in homage to the Greek sun-god Muybridge called himself Helios; the emblem on the business card attached wings to his camera and made it radiate beams, as if the sun were housed in the dark interior of his "Flying Studio".
Yet in a highwire act of her own, Valentine still raises the novel above the ordinary through her ability to convey the richness of the circus performers' emotional lives, coupled with impressive writing — as in a description of Alec's surgically attached wings, every bone-and-brass feather "jigsawed and hammered and smoothed so thin that when it strikes another feather it rings out a clear note".
The big question is what do you get if you attach wings to a pig.
RoboBee's ceramic muscles bend when subjected to a voltage, causing the attached wings to flap.
The method uses a discrete-vortex, time-accurate aerodynamic model of the bridge and attached wings and integrates all the equations of motion numerically, interactively, and simultaneously in the time domain.
