I take road transport to America. He tried flying (6)
I believe the answer is:
icarus
'he tried flying' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'i take road transport to america' is the wordplay.
'take' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'road transport' becomes 'car' (car is a method of transport. I am not sure about the 'road' bit.).
'to america' becomes 'US' (United States).
'i'+'car'+'us'='ICARUS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for icarus that I've seen before include "Unfortunate high-flier in Greek mythology" , "Legendary character" , "In Greek myth, he flew tooclose to the sun" , "Mythological figure who died when the sun melted the wax on his wings" , "Flier with wax wings" .)