airplane
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Bremner followed the first round of Saturday’s draft from an airplane, watching on the seat-back screen in front of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Ohio has offered a piece of fabric from the wings of the airplane built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, the pioneers who made aviation history in 1903 with the first powered, sustained flight.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
During World War II, the DuPont company turned its scientific and manufacturing capacity to national service, producing munitions, nylon parachutes, Lucite airplane turrets, and many other products for the war effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I think we were getting off the airplane in France and the president said, ‘I want him to do what’s best.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
It was something like a helicopter, painted a metallic gray-black like the photos of a stealth bomber in Otto’s airplane encyclopedia.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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"Our focus is on delivering two exceptional Air Force One airplanes for the country."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
People celebrated on roofs, on fire escapes, at watch parties in parks and bars, at Radio City Music Hall, atop buses, on the balconies of Times Square hotels, on airplanes and in subway cars.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Some of these airplanes are literally twice the age of the pilots who fly them,” said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines pilot and CEO of Aero Consulting Experts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Enterprise, meanwhile, was flown on those custom airplanes to John F. Kennedy International Airport and then traveled by barge to Manhattan’s Intrepid Museum in 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The northern armies got the best of most battles because they had more soldiers and guns and all of the airplanes.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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