Sentence examples for early aviators from inspiring English sources

Connect to Today: It's been almost a century since the pioneering flights of these early aviators.

By the late 1800s, other early aviators were hurling themselves off hilltops.

For Maltby, writing a musical about Earhart and her fellow early aviators came easily.

In the daring era of the early aviators, Wilbur and Orville Wright were ravens in a sky full of bluebirds.

Mr. Axinn's next venture is a coffee-table book, "Courage: The Early Aviators (1910-1940)" (Arcade Publishing/Little Brown).

What useful lesson, he wonders, could early aviators have possibly extracted from, say, an ornithopter: "Don't make any more giant bats?

"You can think of me like an early aviator before airplanes were properly invented.

Grinnell Historical Museum displays memorabilia of the Grinnell family and Billy Robinson (an early aviator known locally as the "Bird Man").

Lincoln Beachey, the dashing early aviator, re-enacts his fatal crash, while Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, sings a tribal song of mourning.

General Smith was also an early aviator and was given flying lessons, as a young officer, by Orville Wright, Mr. Mansell said, and his pilot's license, signed by Wright, bore the number 13, because he was the 13th person to receive one.

Mr. Hawkes sought the thrill, enjoyed by the earliest aviators, of both designing and piloting his invention.