In 1931, Bill bought his first aircraft, a Fleet biplane, and his interest in aviation was launched.

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Schulz Sonoma County Airport (no word on whether a Snoopy biplane will be in competition) in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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As it made its approach, the biplane was about 75 feet off the ground and about 300 feet from touchdown.

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Recently, one of his West Coast customers had rented an old-fashioned biplane so that he could ask for his girlfriend's hand while cruising across the California sunset.

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Langford had been part of MIT's 1979 Chrysalis project that resulted in a biplane design that enjoyed a modicum of success -- a project MacCready had also played a small part in.

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Once the biplane had been reassembled, it was put into the water and McClean took off, flying eastward to the Nile Delta, before turning south for Cairo and landing on the Nile.

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Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to cross the Atlantic by air in June 1919, flying in a Vickers Vimy biplane, its bomb bays filled with extra fuel.

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