He stared out at the road and waxed poetic about the way birds flew, the prowess they exuded, saying, Man, those fuckers home in and find a victim from ten miles up, catching the slightest movement, and then dive sightless, eyes closed against the dust and wind, using pure motion and nothing but motion until they're right on top of the kill.
Despite the prevalence of insect flight as a form of locomotion in nature, manmade aerial systems have yet to match the aerial prowess of flying insects.
At the beginning, I wanted to create pieces that documented my prowess at flying through the air.
When Seimei is forced to slice a flying butterfly in two to demonstrate his prowess to a skeptical minister, he not only revives the butterfly but also transforms it into a loyal and doting female servant, who follows him throughout the film, two little antennae wiggling atop her head.
Projected onto a screen at the left of the stage was what appeared to be a series of dazzling feats of balance: Beatriz Sayad hopping, spinning and occasionally flying in the air, held aloft by the superhuman prowess of Rolando Tarquini.
There were some smiles as fellow pilots offered remembrances of flying with the two men, and of Captain Thompson's proclivity for describing the soccer and water polo prowess of his two children and Officer Tansky's penchant for stock tips.
With the animal kingdom's prowess re-asserted, the army major retook the mic, gesturing to the skies and calmly announcing to the crowd that everyone should wave hello to Prince Harry, who was flying in on a chopper overhead.
This happened again and again, apart from on one occasion on 13 August 1969 when the birds' navigational prowess returned and they flew back to their loft.
Researchers have developed a remote-controlled robot about the size of a fat housefly that mimics a fly's aerial prowess.
