airplane
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Pilots could vent buoyant gas, release water carried for ballast or adjust the angle of elevators on the tail, which operated like those on an airplane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“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
Newly declassified documents show that three years before 9/11, US intelligence officials were discussing the possibility that al-Qaeda "may fly an explosive airplane into a US city".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Heading into training camp, Jim Harbaugh made the analogy of the Chargers ramping up like an airplane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
We will have to take an airplane that flies in the sky to get there.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
Airships—even when filled with nonexplosive helium—couldn’t compete with the speedier airplanes, which would become more economical to build and operate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Soybean oil becomes biodiesel and aviation fuel, powering school buses and commercial airplanes.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
He could also recite statistics on the percentage of Iran’s missiles, ships, airplanes, etc., we’ve destroyed in the six-month war.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The other is a powerful exposé on the safety breaches that have caused deadly crashes and accidents on Boeing airplanes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
There’s a war on, so I’m delivering airplanes.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
