He would wait for the first moment he could rip his best shot, the one-handed backhand, and he would let it fly, hoping for the best but not necessarily expecting it.
Perhaps tsetse frequently feed to completion on one host, or it may be that in a homogenous herd flies hoping from one host to another would be indistinguishable from those feeding on a single animal.
And, apart from those hardy fools who take on Red Bull's various flying challenges, hope is about as close as we're likely to get.
To the Editor: Your informative collection of articles about flying, "We Hope You Enjoy Your Flight," (June 25) greeted my husband and me as we returned from our trip to Europe on Air France in "compact class," otherwise known as coach.
He demonstrated his flying skills, hoping to fly the British Hurricane fighter aircraft.
However you choose to fly, we hope you enjoy.
Liam said his flight was at 6am on Friday, adding: "Not sure whether to just fly and hope for the best.
"I wouldn't miss Paris but I would need to go there ready to just let it fly and hope a few things go right".
Any bait will do: if the traitorous-maniac charge on gun control doesn't fly, their hope is that charges of racism or threats of a return to back-alley abortion will get a rise out of him.
It was here during the 2003 Tour de France that a top rider, Joseba Beloki, let fly, hoping to drop the race leader, Lance Armstrong.
"I kind of got that label, but I tell you, man, every day I was out there shagging flies, hoping that my time was going to come," Gomes said.
