Sentence examples for flying the last from inspiring English sources

The aircraft involved, a Vickers Viscount named the Hunyani, was flying the last leg of Air Rhodesia's regular scheduled service from Victoria Falls to the capital Salisbury, via the resort town of Kariba.

In Death of An American Dream, a video about the Pan Am story, Captain Mark Pyle describes his feelings about flying the last Pan Am flight into Miami on that painful December day.

(Some seem to have made a stopover in Iran before flying the last leg to Latakia, which would also explain why some Il-76s — with an endurance allowing for a non-stop trip from Russia to Syria — were observed stopping at an air base near the eastern Iranian city of Hamadan on September 18-19, just before the Russian Sukhois appeared on the tarmac at Latakia).

The Endeavour is scheduled to launch this week, and the Atlantis is supposed to fly the last shuttle mission in June — and all the seats are spoken for.

"It took Sputnik for us to recognize what the Soviet Union was up to," said Harrison H. Schmitt, who flew the last mission to the Moon, in 1972.

I sent her a copy of a picture of my father taken shortly after he had flown the last of his 55 operations.

Rather than fly back over the Andes, I would take a colectivo (jitney) through a pass in the mountain range to the Argentine city of Mendoza and fly the last leg of the trip, from Mendoza to Buenos Aires.

The Norwegian Polar Institute director Jan-Gunnar Winther was among those who didn't make it all the way on skis to Antarctica and flew the last stretch to get to the South Pole in time for the anniversary.

Assigned to a voluntary suicide squad of aviators near the end of the war, Reitsch was one of the last persons to see Adolf Hitler alive in the underground bunker in Berlin, and she flew the last German warplane out of Berlin in late April 1945.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif., NASA said.

Because in adult fruit flies the last group of processes relates mainly to the reproduction-related functions, we will use the term "reproduction-related" genes to refer to this broader class of genes.