The truth is, Paul Ross and his brother John, the latter a pilot in the government Air Mail service, were known all over the State of New York as makers of the best-flying model airplanes to be found anywhere.
Upon reaching San Francisco they planned to continue the journey to New York in airplanes furnished by California aeronautical friends.
Well, then, he could use our plans and make and sell airplanes of their pattern, couldn't he?
All the airplanes I have seen have always dashed forward as soon as their propellers began to revolve under impulse of the motor or motors; there was no restraining them.
Both airplanes taxied down the runway side by side.
Tom was domiciled in the Ross home, to which he had been a visitor in other years, and of course for the rest of that evening was kept busy visiting with Mrs. Ross and looking at the numerous miniature airplanes of Paul's.
We wouldn't require it so much with these motors, as they are equipped with a new kind of muffler which shuts out about four-fifths of the noise otherairplanes get," explained Bob.
In August, 1918, D'Annunzio commanded a flight of eight bombing airplanes over Vienna.
Observers in circling airplanes saw it best--there were few others left alive to tell of it.
And in the air, level with us at times, the wraiths of encircling airplanes were visible.
The forts fired upon them; airplanes darted at them, through them.
Caproni bombing airplanes carried out many historic raids, among them being that on the famous Austrian Base at Pola.
The method of "wing warping" invented by the Wright brothers is still used on all modern airplanes to preserve lateral stability.
And this "streamline form" greatly reduces the head resistance, another important subject on which there was very little known when the first of the airplanes was built.
The British have done some very fine work in developing airplanes of the speed scout type.
In spite of her military program of construction, according to which airplanes were turned out as if by clock-work, there was something wrong with her calculations.
In answer to the aircraft program of the United States, Germany renewed her energies, and her construction of airplanes during the last year of the War was on a larger scale than ever before.
It is a far cry from those first standardized Taubes to the many makes and patterns of German airplanes of the present day.
Airplanes have often been called the "eyes of the army," but in war it is not sufficient to be able to see what the enemy is doing or is about to do.
Against them the machines of the Allies were for a time almost powerless, for the best of their airplanes were completely outgunned by this new terror of the skies.
It was reported that in one day he had been officially credited with the destruction of four airplanes of the enemy.
Only that the airplanes of to-day are so much more efficient than the gallant horseback rider of old, that although the line stretches across a nation, it can act as a man when the moment comes for a big "push.
In carefully standardizing those firstairplanes there was one point which the crafty Germans overlooked: which is, that you can't make a dray horse run fast, nor a race horse draw heavy burdens.
Yet the airplanes that we saw and read of so frequently in war time are not likely to be those which will prove the most popular and useful in the days to come.
Airplanes are rightly called "the eyes of the army.
He then went to the front to study the latest improvements that had been made in airplanes during his absence, in order to take his place again in the fighting which, however, was drawing rapidly to a close.
The first airplanes received from home arrived in May, and altogether we have received 1,379.
Thousands of airplanes were patrolling the air, sometimes scouting, sometimes dropping bombs on hostile troops or on hostile stores, sometimes flying low, firing their machine guns into the faces of marching troops.
Within a few days it was stated that at least 130 German airplanes were brought down.
Airplanes attacked troops in the support trenches and sent them scurrying to the cover of their dugouts.
Germany had probably the largest fleet of airplanes at the beginning of the conflict and is said to have possessed upward of 500, of various sorts, and this does not include the famous Zeppelins or dirigible balloons.
Poor little towers in a land ofairplanes and captive balloons!
The number of airplanes they use merely for training, which also I must not state, is in itself remarkable.
One of the British airplanes flew low over the city, and its engine sang loudly with a vibrant humming, and now and again the crash of a gun or a shell loosened some stones or plaster below its wings.
In one day, May 15, fifty-five German airplanes were brought down by British and French aviators, and on May 16 forty-six German machines were brought down by the British.
American help in men and airplanes and American participation in the war are comparatively small.
On May 14 the enemy lost eleven airplanes with no losses to the Italians and the British, who were assisting them.
It was brilliant moonlight as they hiked it down the road, the airplanes were whizzing over their heads and the anti-aircraft guns piling into them.
Those were wonderful moonlight nights at Saizerais, but the Boche airplanes nearly pestered the life out of everybody.
Sometimes the airplaneswould come in the daytime, and the girls got into the habit of running out into the street to watch them.
Up above were the airplanes throbbing back and forth, and signal lights were flashing.
One speaks of airplanes in such a connection in the same way one used to mention mosquitoes at certain Jersey seashore resorts.
It was under the trees and well camouflaged, but night after night the enemy airplanes kept trying to get it.
Their airplanes flew over and kept close guard, but they could find no sign of a camp anywhere.
The airplanes visited them every night that week, and sometimes they did not think it worth while to go to bed at all; they had to run to the safety trenches so often.
The airplanes were dropping bombs freely everywhere and it looked as if there would not be one brick left on the top of another in a few hours.
So of course they went after the Bay Bridge after the Golden Gate got all those cameras -- after airplanes got all metal-detectored and X-rayed.
At least a dozenairplanes wheeled and curvetted above.
Among the eight airplanes used by the Hearst newspaper forces to "cover" the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin on the Pacific Coast were some huge tri-motored ships.
Also, on the 14th, the northern sky beyond the Swiss wire swarmed with Hun airplanes patrolling the border.
Then Recklow spoke to the three airplanes circling like hawks in the sky overhead; and one by one the observers in each machine replied in English, their voices easily audible.
The reason for dropping the cable is analogous to the reason for using drawbridges over navigable streams; there is only one landing-place for airplanes in this entire region and that is the level, grassy plateau northeast of Thusis Woods.
Airplanes dropped food an' when I got ready to eat I had to squeeze de water out of de bread.
Had you heard of airplanes before you saw one, Uncle Willis?
Had you hear of airplanesbefore you saw one, Uncle Willis?
But before he had time to consider this, he saw twoairplanes rising from the main street of the little town, while the detonations of the Archies grew into a continuous roar.
But before the approaching Boches could surround Blaine or Bangs, still fighting his foe, there rose suddenly out of a cloud to the southwest a new flock of airplanes that instantly attacked the retreating foe.
We are really sending over large numbers of men now, and the shipbuilding program is being rushed; but the situation as regards field guns, machine guns, and airplanes continues very bad.
None of our airplanes had come, and the death of many of our young men was directly traceable to this, as they, of necessity, used inferior machines.
German airplanes always came over and as the men expressed it, "laid eggs wherever they saw a light.
During the night Hun airplanesflew low over us dropping flares and throwing small bombs.
The airplanes are organized in escadrilles, usually composed of ten machines each, for three distinct purposes.
On the "tractors," as the airplanes having the propellers in front are called, the machine-guns are synchronized so as to fire between the whirling blades.
D] Though great numbers of American-built airplanes have been shipped to Europe, they are being used only for purposes of instruction, as they are not considered fast enough for work on the front.
One of the extremely important uses to which airplanes are now put is the destruction of the enemy's observation balloons, on which he depends for the regulation of his artillery fire.
France is now (April, 1917) turning out between eight hundred and a thousand completely equipped airplanes a month, but a considerable proportion of these are for the use of her allies.
Hence, many airplanes are now equipped with oxygen-bags for use in the rarefied atmosphere of the higher levels.
In another letter which The Free Press prints Mr. Low tells of a battle between airplanes directly over his head.
But in order that the seaplanes may fulfill their work of observation with safety they must be defended from enemy airplanes and must, therefore, be escorted by chasing machines.
During the entire period covered the airplanes employed on the battlefront were in the ratio of seven to five in favor of the Allies, whose killings have been in the ratio of five to two.
In the sky over the lagoon, where the gulls once reigned supreme, airplanes now keep watch against the ceaseless threat in the direction of the Piave.
There have been times when, I believe, the British have had as many as 300 airplanes up at one time.
Seven or eight German airplanes made a raid over England on the night of March 7.
Your committee is convinced that much of the delay in producing completed combat airplanes is due to ignorance of the art and to failure to organize the effort in such a way as to centralize authority and bring about quick decision.
They fought German scouts and crushed them, and there are several cases in which they fought German airplanes at night, so that it was like a fight between vampire bats up there where the clouds were touched by moonlight.
It was not dreamed that the building of airplanes would affect the price of underwear and fish, and it was only after careful investigation that the relation between these things was discovered.
The explanation is that the wire stays used in the manufacture of airplanes are made of steel wire from which machine knitting needles are also made.
Since airplaneswere necessary, linen fishing nets were sacrificed and the price of deep-sea fish went up.
The manufacture of airplanes is also said to have affected the price of fish!
That afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt and I walked far and fast along the shore and through the woodlands he had loved, and on our return in the waning winter twilight we suddenly became conscious that airplanes were flying low around the house.
For men who may have had some experience in the assembly ofairplanes at factories, or of rigging them at flying-fields, there is great opportunity.
With only their navigating instruments and an occasional vessel to guide them, they reached their destination after a perfect trip and created a great sensation among the natives who came down to see the airplanes alight.
An airplane mechanic who knows his Liberty engine will be able to look after most of the airplanes with which he will come into contact.
Airplanes have made the trip from Washington to New York in very quick time, only to have to go on to Mineola to land on the airdrome there.
The use of airplanes in this country will require men for rigging, for truing up the wires and struts.
This, in their viewpoint, would mean that the world would be girded by great lanes of airships, fed from a few main centers by swift-scurrying airplanes radiating in from every direction.
Recently the navy has had to face that problem--submarines operating below and airplanes above; but the problem of attack upon a ship is not so serious as upon an airplane.
This is, of course, in considerable contrast to airplanes as at present developed, but it may reasonably be expected that the latter will very soon develop to the same point of independence of the weather.
The four planes that made this trip might be considered as the pioneers of vast flocks of airplanes which within a short time will be winging their way from coast to coast.
German airplanes in squadrons penetrated into snug little England when the German fleet stood locked in its harbor.
Just how the balance will be struck between airplanes and airships is a big question.
Out of the blackness ahead, bearing straight at them, came a dozen German airplanes in splendid formation!
When our own French airmen come then these airplanes shoot up into the sky and give battle.
Where the German airplanes were, Stillinger could only guess.
The aerial defense guns were popping away at the enemy; the airplanes kept up a clatter of machine-gun fire; the alarm siren added to the din.
The machine droned away, pursued by the two or three airplanes that had spiraled up to attack it.
By some foul chance the German bombing plane had escaped the watchful French and American airplanes at the front, had crossed the fighting lines, and had reached Clair with its single building of mark--the hospital.
The pilots of the airplanes are just like the old pioneers.
And the time last winter when airplanes dropped food to people stranded in their homes by blizzards and unable to drive miles to the nearest town for food," from David.
The French system of accounting downed airplanes has been extremely exacting.
Nungesser, on the Somme, destroyed a balloon and two airplanes on a single morning.
But by his quadruple victory Guynemer exceeded these two earlier records and the one established by himself in the Lorraine when he brought down three airplanes in one day.
On the morning of May 25th Guynemer saw three enemy airplanes flying in concert toward French lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "airplanes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
