"It's a bit of trying to change the wings on an airplane while we're flying.
To build the plane while we're flying it, so to speak, it will take bold alliances between the public and private sector.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, January 11 , 1930P. 11 Can understand Admiral Byrd's hazardous position when he radioed a message while flying over Antarctica to the effect that We hope this is worth while for science as we are flying in rough weather and taking chances to map it.
Maybe, like the albatross, we're flying while we sleep.
"We are flying the airplane while we're building the airplane".
However, most of these bats were captured while they were flying, and only 1 of those involved in an episode of human exposure had lost the ability to fly.
While we were all flying high, we looked at the excesses of the wealthy with amusement (and--probably--envy).
Landing late that night in New York, drowsy, I was suddenly startled as the plane touched down, thinking that we'd traveled through a half century of time and space and had, all the while, been flying back to JFK.
