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Reckoning Ending At the end of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise manages to wrestle the AI key from Gabriel while the pair fight in the cockpit of a biplane.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025 -
The filmmaker walked on the wing of the biplane and also put on a diving suit to direct Cruise in a harrowing underwater submarine sequence.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Seaborne, which operates a seaplane service in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is also flying under court protection.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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The tag features palm trees, a parrot, sandals on the beach and a seaplane floating in the waters amid a sunset.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 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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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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Seattle's bike, scooter and glider ridership has surged, with this month's trips up 138% citywide and 146% in South Lake Union compared with the same period in 2024, a Lime spokesperson told Axios in an email.—
Christine Clarridge,
Axios,
15 Jan. 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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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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Extend your adventure: The Schramm Education Center has aquariums and exhibits with more than 60 species of freshwater fish, invertebrates, reptiles, and amphibians found in Nebraska.—
Brian Higgins,
Outside Online,
20 May 2025
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Now, the amphibians’ only remaining natural habitat is a series of canals in Lake Xochimilco.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 May 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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