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As a biplane climbs to 8,500 feet, on a gloomy afternoon in April 1933, Swan’s daredevil plan is to leap from the metal hopper beneath the lower wing, drop through the clouds, and, at the precise moment the rocket in his backpack ignites, explode up into space.—
Howard Blum,
airmail.news,
15 Feb. 2025 -
The locations for the shoot include Patagonia, the streets of Tokyo, and an ancient Middle Eastern city, with stunts including a spectacular biplane maneuver that shows off the daredevil side of Cruise, who famously does his own stunts.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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The three-bedroom, four-bathroom house stretches more than 300 feet across Lake Washington’s waterfront has a dock that supports boats and seaplanes.—
Shannon Carroll,
Quartz,
16 Apr. 2025
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For one thing, the woodsy spread rests along 300 feet of water frontage on the eastern shores of Lake Washington and boasts a nearly 2,200-square-foot dock that can accommodate boats and seaplanes.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.—
Jamie Turner,
cleveland.com,
16 July 2019
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Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Oct. 2024
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Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.—
Smithsonian,
Smithsonian,
26 May 2017
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The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.—
David Hambling,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Feb. 2023
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Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2022
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Soaring wings are long, like gliders, and there are two types of soaring wings.—
Ernie Cowan,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
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The pilot of a small glider plane has died after crashing near an airport in southern Connecticut, state police announced Saturday.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
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In addition, Sikorsky says its RBW design also helps tail-sitter or tilt-rotor aircraft and similar vehicles have smoother transitions from hovering to slow horizontal flight to cruising speeds.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
10 Mar. 2025
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By 2020, the design brief had morphed through a 12-rotor three-person contender called the Seraph to a tilt-rotor people carrier concept dubbed the VA-1X – which the company's Chief Engineer detailed in an interview shortly after the reveal.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
19 July 2024
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The scientists removed a gene that controls the production of thyroxine, a hormone that regulates the amphibians’ metamorphosis.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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