Sentence examples for attempt flight from inspiring English sources

Today, the airport's Mountain Flying Safety guide advises pilots of single- or light-twin-engine aircraft not to attempt night landings, not to attempt flight if high-altitude winds exceed 30 knots, and not to fly if visibility is less than 15 miles.

The dancers desperately attempt flight, catapulting themselves into the air only to be thwarted by the outstretched hands of spotters.

Her description of the panic and attempted flight is followed by that of Dragan, a Serbian soldier, waiting at the edge of the village for the signal to strike.

Frank, not wholly surprisingly, attempts flight rather than fight when a disgruntled ice-cream vendor turns up at St Mimi's school packing a little more than a dozen orange Calippos.

When it was discovered by three teenagers in North Bergen, N.J., in 1960, scientists said the fossil proved that vertebrates had attempted flight 10 million years earlier than anyone then suspected.

Maybe he would have had the protagonist of his many novels, Danny Smiricky, chasing girls in strip malls in Wisconsin rather than in a conscripted labor factory in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, or during attempted flight from Prague after the Communist coup of 1948, or in the sterility of a much later exile.

It found that support for Al Qaeda-conceived attacks against American civilians in the U.S. homeland, such as the attack attempted aboard Flight 253, is virtually negligible in a diverse array of heavily populated Muslim-majority countries.

As the trajectory of the storm became clearer, one of the West Coast charter companies agreed to attempt the flight.

But this wounded bird is priming for another attempt at flight, and she has sharpened her claws for the challenge.

When Violette was arrested — after a brief attempt at flight and a costly shopping spree paid for with her parents' pilfered savings — she gave a full confession.

When Danny Welbeck was denied a penalty in the second half yesterday, the fury in Sir Alex Ferguson caused him to flap his arms and sprint forward in the manner of a recently hatched chick making its first attempt at flight.