Sentence examples for called flying from inspiring English sources

A shortage of jobs and a surplus of inexpensive aircraft provided the impetus for war pilots returning home to start touring as stunt-flying entertainers, either solo or in operations so elaborate as to be called flying circuses.

Its carbon-fiber body offered what Mr. Castriota called flying buttresses.

The ancient Chinese used a similar method called "flying money," or fei qian.

They are sometimes called flying characins and are included by some authorities in the characin family (Characidae).

Unidentified flying object (UFO), also called flying saucer, any aerial object or optical phenomenon not readily identifiable to the observer.

Ms Curtis-Taylor, who flew from Cape Town to Goodwood, West Sussex, in 2013 inspired by Lady Mary Heath's flight in 1928, called flying "addictive".

Father Broadhurst works closely with Britain's three so-called flying bishops, Anglican bishops appointed to minister to Anglican communities not comfortable with women as priests.

Now he is bringing Michel Rolland, a so-called flying winemaker, into the fold to "consult with us from the vine planting through the blending," he said.

Another configuration limited to military craft is the so-called flying wing, a tailless craft having all its elements encompassed within the wing structure (as in the Northrop B-2 bomber).

A so-called flying lens could be the key to developing the next-gen, ultra-tiny transistors and optical drive technology.

Though there's much excitement over the development of autonomous cars and trucks, so-called flying cars and air taxis may come even sooner, Thrun said.