Sentence examples for first flier from inspiring English sources

The first flier, Andrew, is up 10 minutes after we arrive.

Peter Twiss, a British test pilot who set a world aviation speed record in March 1956 when he became the first flier to officially exceed 1,000 miles an hour in level flight, died on Aug. 31 in Titchfield, England.

In June 1997, seven weeks after the birth of his second child, Mr. Martin figured his prototype was now powerful enough to lift its first flier, so long as that person weighed less than 130 pounds.

He was also the first flier to pilot a winged aircraft at four, five and then six times the speed of sound, exceeding that final milestone on Nov. 9, 1961, when he flew his X-15 at 4,093 miles an hour.

It Started With a Shoe L. L. Bean, which entered the scene in 1912 with the Maine Hunting Shoe, the only product in its first flier, started publishing a Traveler catalog in 1998, and now puts out four a year in addition to travel inserts in its other catalogs and a selection at www.llbean.com.

The list of first fliers also includes an unassuming farmer from New Zealand, Richard W. Pearse, who has become his country's Father of Aviation.

The two men, along with a third pilot who did not consent to be interviewed, were the first fliers to be scrambled in F-16's from Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., shortly after the World Trade Center towers were hit.

The backers of the X Prize hope to see a new era of space tourism, just as the first fliers set off a flurry of barnstorming, the first flowering of air tourism.

Most insects today, which evolved from those first fliers, have simplified to either one pair of wings or two pairs functioning as a single pair and using a system of indirect flight muscles.

For example: After the first fliers appeared on campus the morning of Nov. 9, 2016, Trauth issued this statement the next afternoon: "I am aware of reports of action and expression that have occurred on campus following the recent elections in our country.

To produce her first sales flier, she aped the format of the high school newspaper she served as faculty adviser.