Sentence examples for attempt to fly from inspiring English sources

As a result, he abandoned the attempt to fly the glider with a wing-warping system and became the first flying-machine pioneer to make use of ailerons, moveable surfaces on the trailing edge of the wing, to maintain lateral control.

They can't bite or sting; all they can do is struggle or attempt to fly away.

Doors and windows are open, but he makes ho attempt to fly out.

Inside, a woman, also drawn in outline, flaps a pair of handmade wings in an attempt to fly.

A fascinating account of a Swede's 1897 attempt to fly a hydrogen balloon to the North Pole.

Tells about Ted's failed attempt to fly an airplane and a car accident that left him with one arm.

Two Swiss pilots began the first ever attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane this morning.

I wonder if they wear capes and attempt to fly after a few too many Red Stripes?

But the most thrilling tale belongs to Sweden, and Salomon Andrée's doomed attempt to fly a balloon from Spitsbergen to the North Pole in 1896.

See articleManuel Zelaya, president of Honduras, who was ousted by a military coup last month, made an abortive attempt to fly back to his country.

Talk story about Joseph A. Zinno's attempt to fly an aircraft propelled only by the power of his own two feet strapped to bicycle pedals.