: a member of the air force
especially
: an aircraft pilot
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The charismatic flyboy of the sequel trilogy is a true rebel, even questioning commands from his boss, and a top-notch choice for attacking an oversized space station.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
Butler has the look of an actor who would be cast as a cocky flyboy in a 1940s movie, but Cleven is too smooth to give him much to play, especially after his love interest — Isabel May’s Marge — is introduced in the premiere and then never seen again.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
There’s also Lewis Pullman, the Top Gun: Maverick supporting flyboy that shows up here as Lieutenant Thomas Keefer, Maryk’s best friend and the possible real inciter of rebellion here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
Or that those are all hallucinatory images coming from the last synaptic firings of a past-his-prime flyboy getting smeared across the horizon alongside the pieces of his jet?
—Vulture, 29 May 2022
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
Butler has the look of an actor who would be cast as a cocky flyboy in a 1940s movie, but Cleven is too smooth to give him much to play, especially after his love interest — Isabel May’s Marge — is introduced in the premiere and then never seen again.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
There’s also Lewis Pullman, the Top Gun: Maverick supporting flyboy that shows up here as Lieutenant Thomas Keefer, Maryk’s best friend and the possible real inciter of rebellion here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2023
Or that those are all hallucinatory images coming from the last synaptic firings of a past-his-prime flyboy getting smeared across the horizon alongside the pieces of his jet?
—Vulture, 29 May 2022
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“Flyboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flyboy. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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