Sentence examples for serving as a flying from inspiring English sources

The younger Mr. Clausen attended Carthage College in Illinois before serving as a flying meteorological officer in the Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.

Alexandra Hall, the co-founder and chief executive of Airship Ventures, had hoped to make rigid-bodied dirigibles a regular presence in the Bay Area skies once again, ferrying well-heeled tourists on $495 rides above San Francisco Bay, conducting atmospheric experiments and serving as a flying billboard.

Serving as a flying instructor for two years after the Battle of Britain, he then flew many missions over Germany as a member of the 617 Squadron – the "Dambusters".

The printers would serve as a flying factory of infinite designs, creating objects by extruding layer upon layer of plastic from long strands coiled around large spools.

Whitehead was initially stationed at March Field, where he served as a flying instructor.

His youngest brother Francis, who served as a flying officer with No. 30 Squadron in New Guinea, died in an aircraft crash on 31 May 1943.

Described as having the dash of "an Errol Flynn or a Keith Miller", Newton served as a flying instructor in Australia before being posted to No. 22 Squadron, which began operating Boston light bombers in New Guinea late in 1942.

During WWII, Tony joined the U.S. Navy and served as a pilot, flying a fighter plane from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

He went to Dulwich college, south-east London, and when the second world war broke out in 1939 joined the Territorial Army, transferring two years later to the RAF, where he served as a pilot, flying instructor and eventually staff officer in the Air Ministry.

Tiro employs a tone at once grandiose and wry — this is one jaunty epic — and serves as a fly on the frescoed wall, inserting himself into the narrative only occasionally, as when he avails himself of a tryst with a Greek slave girl named Agathe.

He was considered one of the top aviators between the wars, serving as a fighter pilot, test pilot, and flying instructor.