He also invented the Skyhook, an air rescue system that involved an airplane and a large helium balloon.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

What could possibly drive somebody to jump out of an airplane with nothing but a little piece of cloth between them and death?

是什么可能驱使某人跳下飞机,而他们与死亡之间只有一片小小的布？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So the problem here, roughly, is given, a number of cities, and say the cost of traveling from city to city by airplane, what's the least cost round trip that you can find?

基本上就是一个这样的问题,你被告知了一些城市,以及在城市之间坐飞机旅行的花费,那一条是你们能找到最短往返路径？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

When someone invented the airplane, before you knew it every country had an airplane because there was a best practice, there was a best technology and it was not unique to any one country.

有人发明了飞机,不知不觉,每个国家都有飞机了,因为这些最佳的设计,这些最好的技术,并不是一个国家所独有的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She learned to plan an airplane flight as a navigator, operate a radio and fly a plane.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

But finally, Reiner says, well, thank you for visiting us, it's all very wonderful, but you know our audience would really like to know; it seems like a simple question but it's awfully hard to understand, but how can a great, big, enormous, heavy thing like this airplane get off the ground?

但最后 雷纳说到,谢谢你的来访,太棒了,但你知道吗,我们的观众非常想知道,这问题貌似简单,但却很难让人明白,问题是,像这么一个巨大且沉重的飞机,是如何飞起来的呢

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

You might see a war movie in which an airplane has been hit by rocket fire.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

A one-hour trip in a small airplane makes it possible to see the park's red rocks, arches and flat areas where ancient Indian people once lived.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

I imagined I was really flying across an ocean in an airplane, looking over my notes for a big story while on the way to Constantinople or Khartoum.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

He designed and built an airplane that was also a car.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

It looked a little like the body of an airplane.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

One reporter for the New York Times observed that the change from President Herbert Hoover to Franklin Roosevelt was like a man moving from a slow horse to an airplane.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

He bought a new airplane for Post to fly.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

"It's ready to fly, it's a completely autonomous electric airplane now, meaning that it has its own electronics battery and motor."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"The biggest thing was just like this paper airplane, it was a way that you can make something with found materials,cheap paper, scraps,even trash."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated $200 million a day in revenue as a result of airplane groundings related to the Iceland volcano.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The most recent threat nearly got away. The 30-year-old Pakistani American was on board this flight, bound for Dubai when pilots heard this from Air Traffic Control: Federal agents stopped the flight and removed Shahzad, who managed to board the airplane despite being placed on a "no-fly" list hours before.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06