airplane
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“Next thing I know is I’m looking down at my airplane and it’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, and I’m just shooting up into the sky,” said Bath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
On the morning of Sept. 11, he saw the second airplane hit the South Tower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"For a lot of things there's no need to use AI…but for figuring out that six pixels in the distance are an airplane versus some other smudge, it is perfect territory," says Norcia.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
When my yearlong tenure ended, I boarded my flight and soon was gazing out the airplane window over the Rockies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
One day, equity markets are drunk on the prospect that artificial intelligence will cure cancer, improve on Shakespeare and make airplanes take off on time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Soybean oil becomes biodiesel and aviation fuel, powering school buses and commercial airplanes.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Overhead, airplanes screech across a fat blue sky in a hurry to who knows where.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Congress has sometimes taken decades to enact rules for other revolutionary technologies, from electricity to airplanes.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
It wasn’t like the tractor she had seen at the trading post or the airplanes she had occasionally glimpsed, although it came from the sky.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
