Лететь НА / В са молёте?

[Alina Israeli]

I understand Tony's bias, but they seem unlikely to me. We reserve  
instrumental for public transportation, hence ???ехал велосипедом and  
*скакал/ехал конем are from highly unlikely to impossible.

Долететь ракетой is most likely a metaphor: Муж,точно не помню за  
сколько,но ракетой долетел до Дн-ка за Аленкой. (http://www.sadiba.com.ua/forum/archive/index.php/t-1435-p-2.html 
) The same could be said about скакать конем — like a horse, not on a  
horse.

All of us who are unlikely to fly on a rocket could sail on one: Точно  
помню, потому что обратно ракетой плыл. http://bagaevka.pp.ru/news.pl?page=117

But both ракета and instrumental are waning, and one is more likely to  
encounter Мало того, сегодня плыл на метеоре из Кронштадта в Питер.

I found one example of летал воздушным шаром (http://zhurnal.lib.ru/a/alifanow_o_w/it.shtml 
), as opposed то 33,300 for летал на воздушном шаре, so I would not  
recommend it.

AI


Oct 27, 2010, в 1:48 PM, Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[BARRIOS  
TECHNOLOGY] написал(а):

> We're partial to raketoi, Soyuzom, kosmicheskim korablyom, and, at  
> least for a little while longer, Shattlom, here...
>
> Tony Vanchu
> TechTrans International, Inc.
> Director, JSC Language Education Center
> NASA Johnson Space Center
> Houston, TX
>
>
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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