How To Use Aeroplane In A Sentence

At the Hermitage in Geelong on February 20, 1911, Granny recalled seeing the first Bristol Box Kite aeroplane to fly in Australia, a black speck that first appeared over the You Yangs. Archive 2009-03-01
In some ways he liked having this nice new aeroplane. Bomber
As for bridges, fairground rides, aeroplanes and indeed absurdly altitudinous skyscrapers that move perceptibly in the breeze - not fine. Times, Sunday Times
Pissing on the floor or seats of a subway, bus, or aeroplane is considered 'wrong'. Archive 2007-04-01
The recurring theme in many of these stories is the influence of airlines on aeroplane design. Times, Sunday Times

There is the inevitable small, unvisited museum, with its obsolete heavy American machine guns and twisted bits of aeroplane.
His father built him a model aeroplane.
At the more extreme end, some individuals and groups crash aeroplanes or blow up buildings.
The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence, apart from the aeroplane, was a hare which it struck on landing.
Now I'm going to teach him to how to fly a real aeroplane. The Sun
From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires.
To be honest, the thought of jumping out of a moving aeroplane makes my hair stand on end.
From its panoptic position the eye of the man/aeroplane was objective and merciless, it not only sees, it also judges.
The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
The aeroplane was flying a few feet above the sea.
Was he an air traffic controller with special expertise in how not to charter an aeroplane to Libya? Times, Sunday Times
Shaw – being the maverick painter in the pack, and a popular favourite – will surely win the big prize, though, with his views of nowhere places, meticulously and perversely rendered in the unwieldy and super low-tech medium of model aeroplane kit makers' Humbrol enamels. This week's new exhibitions
He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.
The company was considered as a possible subcontractor to build the aeroplane.
Going solo in any aeroplane is alarming. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs.
And if you look in his left hand you will see a little lever and that controls the forward elevator which controls the aeroplane in climb and descent.
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane.
Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter.
Every time we go on an aeroplane for instance, we are trusting our lives to computers in the cockpit and at air traffic control centres.
In practice the gliders became much like any other aeroplanes, except that they had no engines.
-- Since such an aeroplane would be of low velocity, and therefore possess a large angle of incidence, a _large camber_ would be necessary. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
Perhaps that's why so much of her work features aeroplanes and airport lounges.
-- The term lateral should be understood, as applied to aeroplanes. Aeroplanes
They saw enemy paratroops dropping from the aeroplane.
Meanwhile Smudgelet and I spent a fun-filled quiet afternoon while grandad slept busily constructing a model aeroplane.
Using a quarter mill correctly requires practice - like flying an aeroplane.
The control tower is so noisy with aeroplanes whizzing past.
`Come on, old gas-bag, reveille, this man's got to fly aeroplanes tomorrow. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes.
He describes a scene surrounding the collapse of a young woman on an aeroplane, who appears pale, ‘dead, or dying,’ with dilated pupils.
(Have fun!) I hope none of you gentlemen so foolish as to think that aeroplanes will be usefully employed for reconnaissance from the air. A Remarkably Ignorant Posting from a Former NASA History Writer - NASA Watch
In the morning a large school of cobia rested on the sand, taking off like aeroplanes as we approached.
Aeroplanes resound to the deafening rasp of anorak pen-pockets when passengers are told to fill in their landing cards.
The aeroplane owner who hires a professional aeronaut, that is, one who has qualified as an expert, owes him very little legal duty to supply him with a perfect aeroplane. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
His one weakness, apart from aeroplanes, is ice cream.
John wanted to set about their adventure as expeditiously as possible and had booked passage on a postal aeroplane traveling to nearby Hog's Creek.
There are those who complain they can't fit on aeroplane seats but live on fried food and barrels of cola. Times, Sunday Times
Despite having a printed docket attached to my travel itinerary advising me exactly when to be on the aeroplane, I still arrived at the check-in counter before the staff actually did.
We presume he means aeroplanes. The Sun
Juan Carlos Murillo Rodriguez suffered a crush fracture of the L1 vertebral body in a propeller aeroplane crash in 2008.
In this work the aeroplane is the handmaiden of industry. What Aviation Means to Canada
He said: ‘As the plane taxied along the remotest part of the runway, the six suitcases were ejected from the hatch in the belly of the aeroplane on to the tarmac.’
-- The stagger is the distance the top surface is in advance of the bottom surface when the aeroplane is in flying position. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
At first, he thought it was a aeroplane, because the airport was not far away, but its path and its behavior attracted his attention.
Leaving balloons and various forms of gas-bags out of consideration, other experimenters, notably Langley and Lilienthal, antedated him in attempting the navigation of the air on aeroplanes, or flying machines, but none of them were wholly successful, and it remained for Chanute to demonstrate the practicability of what was then called the gliding machine. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
As he stepped off the aeroplane, he was shot dead.
The centre of pressure moves rearward and the aeroplane becomes unbalanced.
But I could feel that we were descending slowly - after two solid days on aeroplanes, my inner ear was sensitive to the tilt of movement.
Making a thing involves meetings and notes and aeroplanes and advertising and plastic wrapping and thought and time. Times, Sunday Times
The aeroplane will travel at twice the speed of sound.
There he was, just 18 and at the start of a promising career, hurling javelins around as if they were paper aeroplanes and delighting in the accolades and awards bestowed upon him.
The increased use of aeroplanes in warfare led to such terms as Beauey, biscuit bomber, and flying coffin.
As I have said, the general structure of these aeroplanes was quite different from the old fabric biplanes.
The first is something billed as a virtually indestructible model aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.
The device would fit all sizes of pram or buggy, including three-wheelers, and was compact enough to fit into the overhead lockers on aeroplanes.
When asked if the aeroplane is one of ours the invariable reply is "Ndia, hii udege yeta Alhamdullilah. What Is To Become of the British Protectorates?
The aeroplane wing showed signs of metal fatigue.
They may have the best seats on the aeroplane, but they have no parachutes. The Sun
Mrs Letchford, as a very young girl at a funfair, wanted to go on a ride which had a small yellow aeroplane but unfortunately as she had spent her pocket money her wish was not granted.
The company aeroplane was sold, all of the company purchases were vetted, and major rationalisation was to follow.
Out of the drone of insect life around us I could distinguish the sound of an aeroplane engine.
This construction proved very successful and, with minor modifications, is still the standard way of making aeroplanes.
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane.
Gyrocopters, also known as autogyros, are a type of aircraft that look like a cross between an aeroplane and a helicopter.
An aeroplane was parachuting supplies to an isolated post in the calcaire those strange weather-eroded mountains on the Annam border that look like piles of pumice, and because it always returned to the same place for its glide, it might never have moved, and the parachute was always there in the same spot, half-way to earth. The Quiet American
But orders came that for the next few days we were to march at night, and during the daytime were to lie "doggo" and not show ourselves for fear of the enemy's aeroplanes. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
Chlordecone was outlawed in the islands in 1993, but it was used illegally - often sprayed by aeroplanes - up to 2002. Times, Sunday Times
This is a series that tries to hype up the dangers facing young British pilots who fly small aeroplanes in Indonesia. Times, Sunday Times
The history of wing walking dates back to 1920s America, when a surplus of aeroplanes after the First World War encouraged soldiers who had been flying in battle to buy them cheaply and go "barnstorming", the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight. The art of aerobatic wing walking
Who is flying this aeroplane? Times, Sunday Times
Taking pride of place in the gallery were scale models of a Euro-fighter Typhoon, a Hunter aeroplane and a 68 mm rocket.
The latter now choose to use what they regard as the more salubrious transportation of the motor car or the aeroplane.
This poor, unsuspecting passenger was frogmarched off an aeroplane in full view of all the other passengers.
I am, of course, fully aware of the very significant differences between aeroplanes and helicopters.
She builds model aeroplanes in her spare time.
Helicopters are not like cars; they are not like aeroplanes, microlights or parachutes, they are like bubbles.
The first is something billed as a virtually indestructible model aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
On the first page there was a prone body, with a broken aeroplane in the distance and smoke spiralling up. PROSPECT HILL
The biplane had arrived in town three days earlier - the first aeroplane to fly into New Plymouth - creating a ripple of excitement
To be honest, the thought of jumping out of a moving aeroplane makes my hair stand on end.
These briefings are rather like the pre-flight safety talks we all have to sit through on aeroplanes.
His one weakness, apart from aeroplanes, is ice cream.
But a glance at them as they made free with the natives 'provisions relieved him on this score, and when Smith explained that he had on board the aeroplane certain delectables in the shape of chicken patties (becoming rather stale), doughnuts, plumcake, a bottle of Australian burgundy, and sundry other remnants of the provisions furnished by the hospitable folk of Round the World in Seven Days
The aeroplane will travel at twice the speed of sound.
He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
In a field was a wrecked aeroplane, a white and yellow _taube_, with its right wing reaching into the air, looking like some gigantic, wounded bird. Paris War Days Diary of an American
Shrapnel shell was unsuited to the disablement of aeroplanes.
Making a thing involves meetings and notes and aeroplanes and advertising and plastic wrapping and thought and time. Times, Sunday Times
By then the real embodiment of air power - the aeroplane - was not quite five years old.
An aeroplane was moving over a world of forests and serpentine lakes. MURKY SHALLOWS
Futurist and functionalist discourses displayed the aeroplane as the emancipation of man, freeing him from earthbound limitations.
And a friend of mine built his own aeroplane, crashed it, fixed it and then flew it again.
An aeroplane requires a set of wings for lift, wing flaps and rear rudder for control and engines for propulsion.
I have just finished the Arkangel version (travelling last week in noisy aeroplanes didn't help me speed through it). Winters Tale follow-up
Using a quarter mill correctly requires practice - like flying an aeroplane.
He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model aeroplanes. Times, Sunday Times
Concorde inaugurateda new era in aeroplane travel.
Two more warnings suggested a problem with the aeroplane's flight control computer systems. Times, Sunday Times
They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
I've nearly finished making my model aeroplane - I just have to glue the wings on.
They then went on to ransack a hangar belonging to the property, which houses an aeroplane, helicopter and car.
One of the greatest difficulties is that, although I. am sure from the past that we are an air-minded race, the average Canadian, leaving out the north country, sees an aeroplane so seldom that he still regards flying as a dangerous sport or experiment. What Aviation Means to Canada
As the aeroplane went down the runway the wing touched a pile of rubble.
He dyed his hair grey and forged an ID card using transfers from a model aeroplane kit. The Sun
He is afflicted with recurring clinical depression, driven by stress - for instance, by terror about jumping out of aeroplanes or plucking up the nerve to mention to Mma Ramotswe his custody of two ill-favoured orphans.
The range to the target is apparently ascertained by those near the guns by a large telemeter, or other range finder, which is kept trained on the aeroplane, so that when the signal is made the distance to the target vertically below is at once obtained. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
Further afield, modern quieter aeroplanes and the potential to extend the night-time curfew should offset the increased traffic. Times, Sunday Times
The other pilot will be carrying out the emergency checks and flying the aeroplane as it descends. Times, Sunday Times
The device would fit all sizes of pram or buggy, including three-wheelers, and was compact enough to fit into the overhead lockers on aeroplanes.
In his spare time he made model aeroplanes. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.
The flight paths of the aeroplanes crossed, with fatal results.
Further afield, modern quieter aeroplanes and the potential to extend the night-time curfew should offset the increased traffic. Times, Sunday Times
He suffered neither fools nor snobs gladly and lost millions creating prototypes of aeroplanes that other companies would benefit from afterwards.
When he landed he was presented with more leaving gifts, including a mini tape-deck and tapes and a huge cake decorated with an aeroplane, made by the school cook and iced by parents.
The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
It was a kind of story you can dine out on for a long time, but at the time it was a bit worrying because I nearly missed my aeroplane over it.
Two of them, the aeroplane, and the orthopter, have prototypes in nature, and are distinguished by their respective similarities to the soaring birds, and those with flapping wings. Aeroplanes
Model aeroplanes come in pieces which you have to put together.
Consequently, pest control agencies are scrambling aeroplanes and ground forces in a bid to kill the insects before their wings grow.
The aeroplane had to make a forced landing because one of the engines cut out.
I have to get on an aeroplane to see one. Times, Sunday Times
And today, in spite of automobiles and aeroplanes, the prices of horses have aviated. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
The fragments would shred an aeroplane's fuselage and render it inoperable, making the anti-personnel bombs very effective on airfield raids.
Ellis and Morscheck were piloting the aeroplanes through a manoeuvre in which one aircraft rejoins the other five while flying in a formation barrel roll on January 21.
Your new job may have triggered it with irregular sleep or eating patterns and the variable humidity on aeroplanes. Times, Sunday Times
I think that the aeroplane is not only useful to make contacts quickly; it is also useful in another way which occurred to me at lunchtime-and that is in getting away from people. The Commonwealth and the League of Nations
The inspectorate is the only competent authority in Bulgaria that can assess the air worthiness of military helicopters and aeroplanes. IAGblog
Brightly-coloured parachutes can be seen descending through the clouds and aeroplanes constantly criss-cross the skies.
Grandfather has never flown in an aeroplane.
Despite pulling the elevator back and the aeroplane changing attitude, it carried on, sinking fast.
The fighter aeroplane, of course, was essentially a short-range defensive weapon.
I love this one for the aeroplane, the pants plus-fours? maybe even plus-sixes? and the mystery of what the heck is going on. I’d grow that.
I believe there is some merit in revisiting the situation where we actually take all forms of self-defence off people when they go on to an aeroplane.
And what about aeroplanes, industry and agriculture? The Sun
We are used to arriving at airports and being able to get on and off aeroplanes in very little time.
I could tell you a good deal about the achievement of Ulster in munition production, her ships, aeroplanes, shells and ammunition of many kinds, but that privilege is as yet denied to me. The Strategic Position of Ulster
`Oh blimey ,' Bert Colley said, `there'll be even more chance of an aeroplane crashing into them if they're invisible to the naked eye. PROSPECT HILL
Clearly concerned about global warming, this pioneering firm has taken to flying its aeroplanes without very much fuel on board. Times, Sunday Times
The famous salt and pepper shakers in the shape of miniature aeroplanes, above, have also made a comeback. The Sun
Images of aeroplanes as luxury objects and weapons of war intermingle with dreamscapes in which people relate to the seminal desire of human beings to fly like birds.
For students of aviation and aeronautical engineering, the aeroplane turns out to be very useful when it comes to understanding the various principles of heavier-than-air flight, aerodynamics, and aircraft design.
We saw that last week when an aeroplane strayed into the no-fly zone in Washington.
While the hall was filling up, they played sounds of aeroplanes, cars and so on. Times, Sunday Times
We have had potential clients approaching us almost since we have got back off the aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane.
Playing with cars, trains or aeroplanes was definitely a gendered occupation.
This cute palladium-plated bracelet features a rocking horse, kite and aeroplane in various different crystal and epoxy colours, from pink to red to blue.
It's weird to think that at any time, somewhere in the world, there are people riding through the night in aeroplanes, squashed up together in a big metal tube hurtling across the black sky, going somewhere or coming back home.
In my first year at high school I had a model aeroplane that was the envy of the other students. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Assistant onsetter Ngesele Potsane was responding to a question from counsel for the State, R du Toit, on whose responsibility it was "to see to it that aeroplane sprags and the farm gate were put back in place". ANC Daily News Briefing
Three model aeroplanes above the fireplace are a twist on the decorative cliché of ducks above the hearth. Times, Sunday Times
Assuming always that the aeroplane is flying at a reasonable height, it should be able to make a safe landing without exposing its passengers to injury. British Aviation in War and Peace
In The World According to Garp, TS Garp is viewing a house that he wants to buy when an aeroplane crashes into it.
We try to ignore it while gazing at the sky, talking of loves lost and spotting slowly gliding aeroplanes.
The ladies started off partying in New York, then they took an aeroplane to Las Vegas where the fetes continued. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Party In New York & Vegas (PHOTOS)
The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes.
The voyage home began, but not before an intruding aeroplane had repeatedly circled the ship.
He saw the soldiers and the land-girls, the silver sausage shapes of the barrage balloons in the sky, the occasional flight of marauder or defender aeroplanes droning aloft.
“However, in those days,” Louis wrote, “quite apart from financial difficulties, we had not got such modern equipment as 4-wheel drive Land Rovers, helicopters and light aeroplanes, nor was there any reasonably sized motor vessel on Lake Rudolf, and it was not practical for me although I did endeavour to go to the area to explore it, unsuccessfully….” Ancestral Passions
Technically, a microlight is a lightweight aeroplane capable of carrying up to two people.
Perhaps their biggest work has been done in aeroplane construction, tractor building and certain of the heavier engineering and basic industries. Present Position of the U.S.S.R.
The first is something billed as a virtually indestructible model aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
We presume he means aeroplanes. The Sun
We have had potential clients approaching us almost since we have got back off the aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
The international effort, led by a York University academic, will see a fleet of aeroplanes working in relays above the Atlantic Ocean to analyse the air.
Hundreds of security guards, doctors, chefs and others are accompanying President Obama on his visit, and the entourage includes a number of presidential vehicles – including his new armour-plated limousine, The Beast, and aeroplane, Air Force One. It’s fun being green when you are the US President « Anglican Samizdat
I am going to buy an aeroplane to fly between two meetings each day. The Sun
Piloting an aeroplane is a recreational activity that carries with it a heavy burden of responsibility.
The first is something billed as a virtually indestructible model aeroplane. Times, Sunday Times
The aeroplane was flying a few feet above the sea.
The aeroplane wing showed signs of metal fatigue.
'Full opposite rudder, stick forward, full opposite rudder,' and stamping hard down with his left foot, and I remembered that 'stick forward, full opposite rudder' brought a single-engined aeroplane out of a spin, and I didn't know if it made the asymmetric wildness of a dead twin-engine better or worse. Second Wind
Using a quarter mill correctly requires practice - like flying an aeroplane.
In 1914, 4 squadrons went to France with 63 aeroplanes, most of them BE2 biplanes (Blériot Experimental), made at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough.
We also flew paper aeroplanes from the mirador.
No one had brought a razor or a toothbrush so an aeroplane was dispatched to base to fetch basic kit. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
They then went on to ransack a hangar belonging to the property, which houses an aeroplane, helicopter and car.
The remainder will replace older aeroplanes.
Everyone is impressed by the flush on an aeroplane toilet.
Concorde inaugurateda new era in aeroplane travel.
We mentioned this in our New Band of the Day column on Mighty Mouse the other week, that disco resurfaces on a regular basis and is more fashionable than Lazarus with a Hoxton fin, what with Aeroplane having one of the hit albums of late summer and DJ magazine running a cover story about the renewed interest in all things shiny and glitterball-y. Tensnake (No 868)
But, at last, he has made for himself a machine which he calls the aeroplane and the tedious problem has been solved quite satisfactorily, so that we now hear a great deal about monoplanes and biplanes, all of which are classed under the general heading of aeroplanes. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks
But arrah! would ye be thinkin 'that a lot of bog-trottin' counterfeiters'd be havin 'a rale aeroplane?" burst out Andy Flinn, who had up to now been unable to give any expression to his feelings. The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat or, the Secret of Cedar Island
The latter, with the 75 millimetre quick-firing gun, is particularly adapted to following up the results of the aeroplane's reconnaissance, especially with the system of rafale fire, because the whole position can be searched through and through within a minute or two. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
He did not see the aeroplane, which was probably hidden in the clouds. Times, Sunday Times
After an experience like that, I warned all my friends to steer well clear of diving out of aeroplanes.
An aeroplane requires a set of wings for lift, wing flaps and rear rudder for control and engines for propulsion.
The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence, apart from the aeroplane, was a hare which it struck on landing.
Cobalt is important in the jet engines of aeroplanes because it makes turbine blades resist high temperatures.
To be honest, the thought of jumping out of a moving aeroplane makes my hair stand on end.

How To Use Aeroplane In A Sentence

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