The combination of science, flying skill, grit and the obvious impact of the raids made it front page news around the world and turned the Dambusters into celebrities.
The company employs myriad technologies for its unmanned flying dogfighters that include computer vision, physics and some pretty serious engineering grit.
The way Fleming directs her, Dorothy has a clumpy farm girl's grit — she's a literal-minded kid fiercely clinging to her hopes and desires among witches, blue-faced flying monkeys, and squeaking little people.
In another incident in the 1980s, a British Airways 747 flew into a dust cloud and the grit sandblasted the windscreen.
The bride and bridegroom danced across the roof to Frank Sinatra's version of "Fly Me to the Moon" while guests drank Champagne and ate grits garnished with collard-green pesto and andouille sausage.
The grit required made her think of Coleman, "a woman from the south who wanted to fly planes, and how she put together her resources, learned French as best she could, working as a manicurist in a barber shop.
For an extended period, Danny flew off to take care of his sick father (and, one assumes, to film another project), which left Mindy to grit things out as a solo working mom.
As President Bush flew over the North Atlantic on Friday, heading home from three days as the houseguest of Queen Elizabeth, he switched his attention from the glamour of royal Britain to the grit of American politics.
Apart from feeling like a cop-out, lipgloss often has the dreadful texture of soft-set jam smeared across the mouth, trapping hairs and grit like fly paper.
Green aquatic plant material, spilt rice and maize, flies and beetles were found, along with varying amounts of grit.
