Sentence examples for flight passage from inspiring English sources

Supersonic flight, passage through the air at speed greater than the local velocity of sound.

Balloon flight, passage through the air of a balloon that contains a buoyant gas, such as helium or heated air, for which reason it is also known as lighter-than-air free flight.

Disneyland and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., are said to be getting an experience in which guests will be able to feel what it's like to pilot the Millennium Falcon, and Orlando's Avatar: Flight of Passage will re-create the sensation of riding one of the film's winged creatures.

Their meeting and romance are captured in "Flights of Passage," accurately titled in view of its account of his multiple progress as a pilot, officer and husband.

His own memoir, "Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator" (Frederic C. Beil/Naval Institute Press), chronicles a teenager's introduction to the seeming random violence of mechanized warfare.

A memoir (by the author of "Flights of Passage") of his Midwestern youth, in which he trained to be a man by being first a boy; it ends with the 18-year-old Hynes saying farewell to his father and waiting for the train that will carry him to war.

A memoir (by the author of "Flights of Passage") of his Midwestern youth, in which he trained to be a man by being first a boy; it ends with the 18-year-old Hynes saying farewell to his father and waiting for the train that will carry him to World War II.

Tickets for local flights and for passage on the famed Arctic Umiaq Line, the world's northernmost ferry, may be booked up as far as a year in advance.

This scene, the subsequent months of hiding in Vichy France, the constant efforts to elude the roundups of Jews and the eventual flight to Casablanca and passage to America, come back to him now regularly.

Radar tracking recorded its southwesterly departure from its flight path and its passage over the Indian Ocean for several hours before all traces of the aircraft were lost.

In addition, the majority of flights during Irene's passage were cancelled in Miami International Airport.