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But several noteworthy acts are slated to grace the sky before those fighter planes, including a squadron of Air Force parachutists, and a 1940 biplane, once used to train pilots during World War II and restored in the 1990s by Stadel Aircraft in Yuba City.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
6 June 2025 -
To beat The Entity, Ethan and his peeps end up in South Africa, where Ethan (who earlier obtained the AI’s source code from the Russian sub) has a final showdown with Gabriel in biplanes.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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Seaborne Airlines, an affiliated seaplane carrier that flies between St. Croix and St. Thomas, will continue operating.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
11 June 2025
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Take a scenic seaplane tour of the enormous Juneau Icefield.—
Sharael Kolberg,
Travel + Leisure,
27 May 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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Whether racing dune buggies along the Massachusetts coast, piloting a yellow sailplane, or sharing a silent chess match with Faye Dunaway, his shades were always front and center.—
Kate Donnelly,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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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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Book a hang gliding lesson or pilot a reproduction of the glider the Wright brothers flew in 1902.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
30 May 2025
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From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Operation Spider’s Web saw 117 attack drones, mostly small, relatively cheap tilt-rotor forward-person view drones, suddenly emerge from hidden crates inside trucks strategically parked near Russian airbases thousands of miles from Ukraine.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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This is not the first time that an eVTOL has made such a transition flight with a pilot aboard, but the others by the likes of Beta Technologies and Wick Aero used aircraft with separate horizontal and vertical flight systems, while the S4 used a tilt-rotor system for both maneuvers.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Apr. 2025
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Riverside Reptiles Education Center 132 S Road Enfield, CT For a bit of a different kind of experience, Riverside Reptiles gives kids a chance to see reptiles and amphibians up close.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
9 June 2025
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The American black bear is the universal symbol of the Smokies, but around 65 species of mammals, 200 types of birds, 67 native fish species, and more than 80 varieties of reptiles and amphibians call this area home.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
18 May 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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