airplane
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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
“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
That means they have about five times more cargo space than an airplane, but are five times smaller in length than a typical container ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
More prosperity: Active noise cancellation has gotten good enough to muffle airplane noise and it’s almost there for human voices in offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
One day on an airplane, he confided to me that he thought of all our fellow passengers as potential patients.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
"Our focus is on delivering two exceptional Air Force One airplanes for the country."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Throughout history, innovations including gunpowder, chemical weapons and airplanes have repeatedly rewritten rules of combat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
Part of her job at Aero Design and Engineering, an aircraft manufacturer, was flying at conventions to interest potential buyers in the company's airplanes.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
