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n. (plural of flyboy English)
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Flyboys is a 2006 British-American war drama film set during World War I, starring James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Abdul Salis, Philip Winchester, and Tyler Labine. It was directed by Tony Bill, a pilot and aviation enthusiast. The screenplay about men in aerial combat was written by Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans and David S. Ward with the screen story by Blake T. Evans. Themes of friendship, racial prejudice, revenge and love are also explored in the film.
The film follows the enlistment, training, and combat experiences of a group of young Americans who volunteer to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916. The squadron consisted of five French officers and 38 American volunteers who wanted to fly and fight in World War I before the United States' entry into the war in 1917. The film ends with an epilogue that relates the fate of each American pilot to the real-life Lafayette Escadrille pilot upon whom his character was based.
The Flyboys were a pioneering punk rock band founded in 1975 before the first wave of American punk. The act was prominent in the Los Angeles punk rock scene around 1976 and 1977. Their second release was the debut output for Frontier Records. The band broke up in 1980.
Usage examples of "flyboys".
We're assuming that the President will give the flyboys a go on dropping some eggs on this place.
And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.
You might want to get your flyboys up out of bed and thinking about heading toward their jets, though.
We'll have to rig up a trainer system, get charts of the targets, recruit some more flyboys, all that shit.
One of the Navy flyboys got a little antsy and hit him with his Chain Gun.
Two divisions based at Schofield Barracks, the Coast Artillery Command with its headquarters at Fort DeRussy right next to Waikiki Beach, the flyboys at Wheeler right by the barracks complex here, and, just for icing on the cake, the Pacific Fleet .
I don't suppose you flyboys have heard of a thing called Earth Day, planned by the environmentalists in a couple of weeks' time—"
The trouble was, there was a strand of thinking inside NASA that approved of the Soviets' tough approach: mostly the old military flyboys, who seemed to think NASA astronauts were getting pampered.