Sentence examples for blind flying from inspiring English sources

By then, airplane instrumentation had been developed sufficiently to permit "blind" flying on instruments alone, but training pilots to do so involved considerable risk.

The Navy's special devices, as they are sometimes termed, have been called the greatest military-training innovation of modern times Among other inventions are the Captain's discoveries of the de Florez-oil-cracking process, the de Florez temperature-control system, and the de Florez verticical furnace, safety drilling systems, and blind flying methods.

Guiding Light A MAN'S BEEN JAILED FOR TRYING TO BLIND FLYING JETS He'd shine torches at them during their nighttime training sessions.

If an airline is shoddy, "the public has to get off," said Schiavo, who returned here yesterday to promote her new book, "Flying Blind, Flying Safe". Schiavo, who now teaches at Ohio State University, continued her long-running criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Flying Blind, Flying Safe is a non-fiction book about the American airline industry and Federal Aviation Administration, written by Mary Schiavo with Sabra Chartrand.

Flying Blind, Flying Safe reached number 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list on April 6 , 1997 and remained on the list through June 1997.

And when was the last time your Venetian blinds flew through the air with the greatest of ease?

Mutant flies were tested using a countercurrent phototaxis assay to retain blind flies, and using ERG field potential recordings of the eye during a light flash, to determine synaptic transmission efficiency (12).

Since blind flies are viable under laboratory conditions, photoreceptor neurons provide a model for the in vivo study of mutations that would be lethal if present in other tissues.

Like the blind bat flying through the night sky, we transmit experience to orient and create identity.

One was Robert Routh, then 19, who was permanently blinded by flying glass.