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4 unusual facts about Learning to Fly


Learning to fly

"Learning to Fly" (Tom Petty song), a 1991 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the album Into the Great Wide Open

Flight training, in which a person takes lessons to fly an aircraft such as a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft

"Learn to Fly", a 1999 song from Foo Fighters' album There Is Nothing Left to Lose

Fledging, a bird, bat or other flighted creature learning how to fly



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Bambini-Code

For example, with the retirement of the Hawker Hunter from SAF service in 1994, SAF pilots in the United States learning to fly its replacement the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet found they could not be understood when using the Bambini-code.

David Eagles

He spent fifteen months learning to fly with the United States Navy, where he flew the Harvard (US Navy SNJ), the Grumman F9F Panther and the North American T-28 Trojan at Naval Air Stations Pensacola FLA and Kingsville TEXAS.

Marcel Desoutter

Learning to fly with the Blériot Company at their Hendon works, he passed the flying tests at the age of 17, but could not receive his licence until he was 18, receiving Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate no. 186 on 27 February 1912.

Roy Marsden

In an interview Marsden said "It was one of the most enjoyable programmes I ever made. Learning to fly those old DC-3s was terrific. And I enjoyed playing Ruskin enormously because he had hope. Of course, he was a pain up the tushie most of the time, but then you'd see that youthful desire to actually get out and triumph against enormous odds. I identified with that character the most."