Mayfly

Glad you landed safely and your pilots were not distracted by their laptops...although something about the name Mayfly doesn't inspire aerial confidence.

Crossing the Atlantic James Gurney 2009

So, on Aug. 31, 1910 -- 100 years ago this month -- she attached a little motor to her biggest glider, called the Mayfly, and took off.

Aviation pioneer Lilian Bland took flight 100 years ago 2010

He was, as usual, accompanied on this errand by one of his four-footed favourites, a delicate snow-white greyhound called Mayfly, of whom Miss

Miss Philly Firkin, The China-Woman Mary Russell Mitford 1821

"Mayfly" presents a desolate wood cabin, absent of any vestige of its inhabitants.

A. Moret: LAX to Charles de Gaulle 2010

"Mayfly" is just one instance where Galloway presents seemingly predictable environments but as they unravel new images and associations begin to appear.

A. Moret: LAX to Charles de Gaulle 2010

"Mayfly" by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy [2005 short story]

REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction # 23 edited by Gardner Dozois 2006

We all remember "Mayfly," a trick horse at Welch's circus, that could perform anything possible to a horse: he was a pupil of Baucher.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

As in the case of the Army, it was to airships that the Navy first turned its attention, and the birth of naval aviation may be said to date from July 21st, 1908, when Admiral Bacon submitted proposals for the construction of a rigid airship, the ill-fated "Mayfly" which was destroyed on her preliminary trials.

Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes 1915

This defect was remedied by a series of alterations, and meanwhile the unofficial title of 'Mayfly' was given to the vessel.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

Taken over by the Admiralty before she had passed any flying tests, the 'Mayfly' was brought out on September 24th, 1911, for a trial trip, being towed out from her shed by a tug.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914