Sentence examples for thrill of flight from inspiring English sources

Peter Siebold was a naturally gifted flier whose father, who owned a plane, would perch him on a stack of pillows in the cockpit when he was five so he could experience the thrill of flight as if he were the pilot.

Still, Cooley's vision was enough to entice Rochester's elite to open their pocketbooks to the man who promised the thrill of flight.

On a visit to the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian in September he recalled the thrill of the flight.

The thrill of actual flight is catching on at other aviation museums.

I miss the thrill of flying.

(King Louis XVI had initially wanted the volunteers to be prisoners, whose sentences he'd commute if they survived the trip, but his attendants convinced him that the thrill of the first flight should not be wasted on ruffians).

The resulting book elicits sadness for the birds that have been lost, along with admiration for Mr. Steadman's art, but mostly the kind of delight so peculiar to an appreciation of birds: the thrill of colors and flight that squashes envy and leaves a lover of the natural world in open-mouthed joy.

Politicians, too, were caught up in the thrill of manned space-flight.

But one of the reasons we hunger for new forms of flight is that the thrill has a way of wearing off.

If I am to be completely honest, I too have always gotten a thrill out of watching those incredible mechanical birds of flight soaring through the sky.

If you know someone who loves a thrill and isn't afraid of heights, consider giving the gift of flight and buying them a flying class through a local aviation school.