Sentence examples for warplanes a from inspiring English sources
It's too reminiscent of pilots' painting their girlfriends' names on warplanes, a fad especially popular during World War II, when R.A.F.
In America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared his resolve to build 50,000 warplanes — a number that sounded reassuring until it was later revealed that Roosevelt had simply made it up.
The United Arab Emirates would buy 26 F-16 warplanes, a package that could reach $5 billion alone, along with precision missiles that could be launched from those jets at distant ground targets.
As the Kurdish "safe haven" developed into a "no fly zone" policed by U.S. and British warplanes — a de-facto Kurdish autonomous zone, beyond the authority of Saddam Hussein — Barzani and Talabani fought for preëminence.
An Iranian government spokesman, Mohammad-Bagher Nobakht, said Fabius's visit could open the way for the sale to Iran of French-made Mirage warplanes, a development that may alarm the Pentagon and Gulf states hostile to Iran.
As you enter its seven-story atrium, you look up to see a B-17 Flying Fortress, a Corsair fighter (also known as "Whistling Death") and other warplanes — a sight that at one time might have chilled skygazers of the Axis powers.
The blasts came a day after activists reported more than two dozen people killed when a warplane fired a missile at an Aleppo elementary school during a children's art exhibit.
It had 37 halls, and its exhibits included a tank, a warplane and a tram car.
Outside, there was a 21-gun salute and a flypast of warplanes in a "missing man formation", used to salute a fallen pilot.
The biggest attraction at the compound was the statue of the fist crushing an American warplane, a monument to defiance, installed by the colonel after attacks by President Ronald Reagan on the compound in 1986.
It combines images including a U.S. military warplane, a bombing and scenes of American prosperity, including a smiling blonde girl sitting under a hair dryer reminiscent of a missile, the museum said.
