It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

The first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound was the X-1 in nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

In nineteen-ninety seven, John Denver was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Amelia could not continue. She sold her bi-plane, bought a car and left California.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

On June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight, the plane left the eastern province of Newfoundland,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Clemente and four others were on that plane on December thirty-first, nineteen seventy-two.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The number two plane flew seven thousand two hundred thirty-two kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

So on June first, nineteen thirty-seven, a silver Lockheed Electra plane left Miami,Florida.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

From under the plane's right wing, the black sharp-nosed X-15 drops free.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The failed attack on the plane happened December twenty-fifth, Christmas Day.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

The pilot of the huge B-52 bomber plane pushes a button.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

But the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after take-off.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

But the machinery - the plane itself - was exciting,too.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Purdue University provided Amelia with a new all-metal, two-engine plane.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Her first plane had two sets of wings,a bi-plane.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

The plane was called the X-15.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

poet and rock singer Jim Carroll; and DJ AM, who survived a fiery 2008 plane crash with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And the long-awaited Airbus A400M, a military cargo plane, is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23