If the police kill a crook, she flies to the scene of the shoot-out to pose over the bleeding corpse.

ECONOMIST: Saving the Philippines from the scum of the universe

The Queen favours Concorde when she flies and the Queen Mother is even reported to have taken the controls of one of the aircraft during a test flight.

BBC: Concorde: Loved by the rich and famous

Now she flies regularly.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Wonder Woman urges Superman to address the world through the United Nations and as he flies off, she muses that she hopes he tells the world what she has always wanted to hear him say.

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If he could do that, surely he should be able to render the quickness of his mare as she shook her tail against the flies, or impatiently raised her neck while he prepared the little painting cart, or pricked her ears as he made noises to the forest.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

For 22 years, she has led a crew that takes it to black flies on their home turf.

NPR: Waging a One-Woman War Against Black Flies

She spent the weekend demonstrating proper pivoting techniques, surveying matches, swatting flies, and sweating in the Senegalese summer heat with aspiring basketballer players.

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She was known for camping out each summer with the Air Force Academy freshman class, for going up in almost every kind of plane the Air Force flies, and for taking off on early-morning bicycle treks when she visited bases around the country.

CNN: Air Force Secretary Widnall Stepping Down

She compared the title national poet for Wales to the conch shell in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

BBC: Clarke named Wales' national poet