How To Use Biplane In A Sentence

  • In rapid sequence, the heavily-loaded single-engine aircraft, seven monoplanes and one biplane, were sent on their way.
  • The filmmakers have rounded up a fine-looking collection of biplanes and triplanes, which contributes to the authentic feel of the film.
  • Herring wanted to attempt a flight in a motordriven biplane in order to gain the prestige and honor success would bring.
  • I remember a faded photo of my Grandma Nell as a young woman, taking to the air in an open-cockpit biplane.
  • At a time when American airliners were all-metal monoplanes, the Navy stuck with biplanes with fabric-covered wings.
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  • Today, FABA has over 70 airworthy biplanes of all types.
  • The clumsy wire-braced cloth and wood biplanes that had characterized the early days of aviation quickly fell by the side of the runway as manufacturers began to build aircraft which could cash in on the sudden mania for high speed.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Mounted atop the upswept rear of the hull was a large biplane tail unit with triple fins and rudders.
  • For the past three days the biplanes have been coming and going from a local airstrip, offering an aviation equivalent of a trip round the bay.
  • [Illustration: Fig. 110] [If you have drawn the picture, Fig. 110, in advance, merely indicate the parts as you proceed; otherwise, point them out as you finish each part of the machine.] "This style of machine is known as the biplane, or two-plane. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks
  • Mounted atop the upswept rear of the hull was a large biplane tail unit with triple fins and rudders.
  • After the 1912 Connecticut War Games, the Army recognized the need for a standardized aircraft which had more capabilities than the earlier pusher biplanes.
  • These aircraft are simply the most beautiful modern biplanes available today, and they are the only roomy round engine sport biplane being built by a manufacturing company.
  • Airplane designs that have never seen the light of day populate these skies, including dual fuselage, push-driven biplanes with counter-rotating propellers, and zeppelins that behave more like aircraft carriers.
  • A biplane is a certain kind of a flying machine. The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds
  • Metal replaced wood in aircraft structures, the monoplane layout replaced the biplane, and a variety of specialized refinements were incorporated in fighter design.
  • Then the white biplane dipped as the pupil began looking for his airfield. Bomber
  • The Utterly Butterly barnstormers wowed the crowds with their daring aerobatics on top of the biplanes.
  • Later, Lewis guns loaded with incendiary bullets and mounted on the famous Sopwith Camel biplanes, helped bring down hydrogen-filled German Zeppelin dirigibles that had been terrorizing English cities.
  • Lots of other small planes, some old, some new, also flew over but the only engine nearly as loud as the biplane was the tour boat out of Newburyport harbor. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Among the arts ascribed to Home was that called levitation, in practising which he was raised in the air by an unseen and unknown force, and remained suspended there; this being, so to say, the first step towards human flying without the assistance of any biplane, monoplane, or other mechanical contrivance. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
  • Gone are interesting characters like the greedy and treacherous aide, and that marvelous biplane.
  • Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter.
  • The biplane looked much like a Wright Flyer except it had only one propeller and a cross-shaped tail.
  • A year earlier, she had set an altitude record in the same craft which was a small Avro Avian biplane.
  • One sees the wood chocks pulled away, the biplane taxiing on grass out into the middle distance.
  • In rapid sequence, the heavily-loaded single-engine aircraft, seven monoplanes and one biplane, were sent on their way.
  • The two-seat biplane was the standard basic and primary training aircraft at fields in the United States during the war.
  • The film-makers have rounded up a fine-looking collection of biplanes and triplanes, which contributes to the authentic feel of the film.
  • On April 14, accompanied by his mechanic Teodoro Madariaga, Salinas flew Sonora, his Glenn Martin pusher biplane, overhead and began bombing the Guerrero. Did You Know? The World's first aerial bombing: the Battle of Topolobampo, Mexico
  • Getting the man-versus-biplane scene from North by Northwest right began with a suit.
  • At a time when American airliners were all-metal monoplanes, the Navy stuck with biplanes with fabric-covered wings.
  • Some of them can turn complete somersaults, though this is mostly done in monoplanes, and seldom in a biplane, which is much more stable in the air. Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds
  • He arrives in his biplane and crash lands it in a tree.
  • So often they're flashy, ambitious and about as useful to your home cook as, say, a biplane, which is why so few of them end up on my top 10 lists. NPR Topics: News
  • Gone are interesting characters like the greedy and treacherous aide, and that marvelous biplane.
  • I love reading about flying daredevils who rode the wings of biplanes in the 1930s, or Kentucky farmers who plowed their fields with teams of matched mules.
  • In 1899 they built a little five-foot wingspan biplane kite to test out their control system.
  • The two-seat aerobatic biplane is no bigger than a compact car.
  • Grumman created Design 7, which was a single-engine biplane amphibian with landing gear that retracted into its large central float.
  • I remembered the old photo of Grandma Nell holding my five-year-old dad in that open-cockpit biplane.
  • In October 1925, NACA test pilot Paul King poses with a Vought VE-7 "Bluebird" biplane, typically used as an advanced trainer, before taking flight.
  • The War Ministry formed the Army Aviation Unit, purchasing eight French-built aircraft, four monoplanes and four biplanes.
  • As I have said, the general structure of these aeroplanes was quite different from the old fabric biplanes.
  • However, it also saw one of the last great racing biplanes take to the pylons - the Laird Super Solution.
  • The little white biplane had become an enemy bomber, for in what magical rites and rituals do we not manufacture an enemy from clay or wax. Bomber
  • Gone are interesting characters like the greedy and treacherous aide, and that marvelous biplane.
  • When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight.
  • An airshow is underway at a nearby airfield, and antique biplanes loop overhead as we poke through out of style clothes, old suitcases and Tupperware. Butternut Squash Risotto with Sage and Gorgonzolo
  • He arrives in his biplane and crash lands it in a tree.
  • The US Navy lost interest after two enormous dirigibles, equipped with unique little biplane fighters that hung on hooks below them, went down at sea with the loss of all hands.
  • The biplane came to rest inverted after the right wing dragged the ground during the attempted off-airport emergency landing.
  • The craft is a biplane flying boat that is thought to have been designed and built immediately after the Great War.
  • The thing was a kind of pilotless biplane of gossamer polymer, its wings silkscreened to resemble a giant butterfly. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
  • The Wildcat is a cross-over from the biplane to the monoplane fighter.
  • As it was Mr. Justice Byrne was quite correct, as the word tabloid had indeed come to be used to mean the "compressed form or dose of anything"; during World War I, a small Sopwith biplane was known as the 'tabloid' within the Royal Air Force, whilst during the Everything2 New Writeups
  • It is intriguing to contemplate that perhaps avian flight, like aircraft evolution, went through a biplane stage before the monoplane was introduced.
  • Whereas WWI happened in the infancy of the airplane when biplanes were the machines of flying combat, WWII was the first war where the evolving plane technology created a full-scale theater of war in the skies above Europe and the Pacific.
  • The rugged aircraft proved popular with owners but time began to take its toll and newer monoplanes began to replace the biplane classics.
  • In the case of the larger biplanes, a student goes up in a dual-control Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun
  • Mounted atop the upswept rear of the hull was a large biplane tail unit with triple fins and rudders.
  • The craft is a biplane flying boat that is thought to have been designed and built immediately after the Great War.
  • One way to accomplish that would be by encouraging the world’s most famous daredevil to fly his own biplane with his name emblazoned on it. The Secret Life of Houdini
  • These are fearless people who are strapped to rigs on the top wing of a 1940s biplane while the aircraft performs a sequence of loops, rolls and turns in front of air show crowds across the country.
  • The Gilmore house earned its “airplane” nickname immediately, both because of its shape, looking like a biplane from the east, and because of its location, which made it appear that the "plane" was about to take off over the city of Madison. Funny, You Don't Look 100!
  • The single-seat biplane had a top speed of 108 knots per hour.
  • When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight.
  • Fighter development in Europe was rapidly changing the way American designers were regarding their aircraft and it was obvious the day of the biplane combat aircraft was over.
  • The machine consisted of the fuselage of a small biplane with two outriggers supporting to engines.
  • In the case of the larger biplanes, a student goes up in a dual-control airplane, accompanied by an old pilot, who, after first taking him on many short trips, then allows him part, and later full, control, and who immediately corrects any false moves made by him. Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun
  • I want my own airstrip where I can fly my own biplane from home and do aero over my house and run out of gas and dead-stick down for dinner. FALLOUT
  • When completed, Art started barnstorming the lumbering biplane throughout the Midwest.
  • For this time we were boarding a vintage biplane. The Sun
  • The biplane had arrived in town three days earlier - the first aeroplane to fly into New Plymouth - creating a ripple of excitement
  • But T.O. Nicholson could fix up his big steam yacht, load his specially-made big motorboat aboard, and tuck in a "dissembled" biplane without any more notice than a snip in the society column. Herland

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