flying colors

That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

The “pilot flying” was more probably the far less experienced copilot.

One report has the AirAsia Airbus flying at a speed very close to what would trigger a low speed stall.

Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.

I asked him to tell me how he produced a certain effect he makes in his arrangement of the ballad in Wagner's Flying Dutchman.

According to the general verdict, she was equally successful in oils and water-colors.

These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!

Pretty well for "a cross between an Astley's chariot, a flying machine and a treadmill."