Sentences with word «aeronaut»
An "aeronaut" refers to a person who travels or operates in aircraft, such as a pilot or a balloonist. Full definition
Swedish aeronaut Per Lindstrand and I crossed the Atlantic in a hot - air balloon in 1987 and the Pacific in 1991, setting records that still stand.
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Lyra is helped by a talking armored bear, boat people called Gyptians, a Texan aeronaut balloonist and several wise witches.
From a vantage point above the trees, the Yankee's «chief aeronaut» sketched the activities of the enemy soldiers.
Adventurer and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard is poised to take to the skies in a sun - powered plane that's wider than a 747 but only as heavy as a family car
Along the way, they ally with aeronaut Lee Scoresby (a perfectly cast Sam Elliott), with his hare daemon Hester (voice of Kathy Bates), witch Serafina Pekkala (Eva Green), and Iorek Byrnison (voice of Ian McKellen), a former prince of the ice bears now in exile and forced to work for whiskey after the townsfolk tricked him out of his armor.
... You are a first - time aeronaut, alone beneath the gasbag, equipped with a few kilos of ballast, and told that this item in your hand you've never seen before is the valve - line.
Experience the exhilaration those first aeronauts must have felt when they ascended over Paris in 1783; in their Hot Air Balloon; the first to see
He was treated as if he were a politician who had never been indicted, an aeronaut who had landed after a trip in a hot - air balloon.
Now one aeronaut is looking to the ancient leathery - winged pterosaur in hopes of becoming the pilot of the world's first successful ornithopter.
To fly Leonardo da Vinci's Great Bird (left), an aeronaut would need to flap a 500 - pound pair of wings with his legs.
Olé communion: Austerity and the aeronaut — Gabriel Voisin's prescient microcar Reg Winstone uncovers the story of the Biscooter and its inventive creator / Percy Lambert: Going for 110 miles in the hour?
That haunting image of our blue planet emblematizes the collective desire of each of the aeronauts documented here; as Holmes puts it, «the dream of flight is to see the world differently.»