“That plane writing up there,” Bigger said, pointing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway across when the planes came roaring, demolishing the sky over the Severn Valley. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On a clear, sunny day, nearly sixty years after Hitler's Nazi saboteurs landed on America's shores, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger planes and carried out suicide attacks against the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She and her crew got stuck one day in a Pe-2 whose engine failed on takeoff, and the pilot had to crash-land the plane with live bombs attached beneath the wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All he could think about was getting on a plane with his father. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly a bright flash lit the compartment, the light from the explosion reflecting off the clouds in front of us ... A few moments later, two sharp shocks slammed the plane.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a crucial misunderstanding, upon which the fate of the plane would ultimately rest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

For the first time the planes of his face shifted—with pleasure? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We handed in our final essays for the term, then boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Klavdiya threw herself flat on the ground as the German plane passed over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“No, just about life. Race doesn’t really work here. I feel like I got off the plane in Lagos and stopped being black.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

God, let this plane taxi the runway! he prayed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

So he left the plane running, holding altitude, and kept trying the radio. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, shut up, Gonzalez. Did you get my plane ticket to Chicago for the Bears' game with the Packers?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the plane and the pilot that would change things ... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fly across the United States, and you will step from the plane a quinzillionth of a second, or something, younger than those you left behind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Irina made it back to the airfield and managed to land the plane safely. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was abrupt, as if the plane had turned. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can’t be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All through the fall, I thumbed over to War every Sunday afternoon so Dorothy and I could work on plane geometry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Toby slapped the side of the plane and stood up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, on a hospital plane full of UN workers and sick white people, we were transported through a long thrumming darkness, in which we slept the sleep of the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I feel it—the lift, the rising of the plane, and I see the ground stretching wide beneath us, everything getting smaller by the second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The little plane jerked and bumped through the sky, making it harder to concentrate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the young women thought they were under attack from enemy fighter planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it would be like if a plane bombed it in the daytime. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A number of them had hopped planes to join me for unglamorous stops on the campaign trail, giving me emotional ballast when I needed it most. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When die plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted him and dropped him and left him with nothing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serafima said, “We painted on...our planes: Revenge to the Enemy for the Death of our Friends.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From long experience she knew that the plane was not in her range of vision, nor would it be for several minutes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, there was the spotter plane that we’d all talked about in Vern’s study, the one that was going to locate the sharks for the fisherman to tag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

For example, someone in a position of authority decided the Pe-2s of the 125th Guards would be able to carry a heavier load of bombs if the planes carried less fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought this was the plane to Eagle Point.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I left: promising to enroll in a French class and then forgot that promise as soon my plane landed back in New York. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

About five minutes before the plane landed, I became aware of people talking in the seat behind me. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Leaning his head out the window, Bull scanned the treeline for a glimpse of the plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Detained? What? She wasn’t on the plane with you?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

William Faulkner added his pilot’s know-how to the scenario, getting technical as he described exactly what Tania would have to do to make her plane turn and swoop and dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That was when we began to hear the planes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he would sprint to the plane and knock out fifty, sixty push-ups before the exertion slowly siphoned away the anger. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Frank knew instantly it was going to hit the plane. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was one of the planes that crossed over from being the love object of flyers and aviation insiders to a broadly known symbol of US technological prowess and bravery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the plane crash-landed nose first, which could easily happen in an emergency, Marina would be crushed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Some scientists speculated that if a pilot succeeded in pushing his plane through the sound barrier, either the plane or the pilot or both would disintegrate from the force of the shock waves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The plane flew over the North Sea to Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her next plane was a Skysleeper, where the “hostess gave me hot chocolate and cookies and tucked me in with two blankets and two pillows.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The plane trees drop their seeds and huge drifts of fluff gather on the walkways. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Witch planes can be anything: a wooden basin, a clay pot, a simple hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The other two regiments were to fly planes that would need a navigator to go along as part of the aircrew; Marina was going to have to appoint nearly as many navigators as pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She’d shot down one of the German planes when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her leg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My mom had never taken me anywhere by plane. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We were still holding hands when the plane began its descent into Seattle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Poppy had written “indefinitely” on the length of their visit when he filled out the papers on the plane. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gave them the details and told them about the British commandos who’d be coming in by plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could just take a plane,” Rachel said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The plane had portholes, and as soon as we could see in the half- light, my comrades pressed their faces to die glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they had to repair and test the same planes during the day so they’d be ready for the next night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The bombing, the fiery plane crashes, the faces of the wounded who no longer exist. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I now own an airplane, Miyax. It’s the only way to hunt today. The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone; but sportsmen can still hunt from planes.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After six and a half hours on the plane and keeping up with Cecile, I figured they could use the recreation. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked ahead of the plane, through the whirling propeller, he saw the endless trees stretching away to the horizon. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened, but we floated in a milky whiteness that seemed to hold the plane suspended above Puerto Rico. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He feels hungry all of a sudden, wishes he’d thought to save the bagel the stewardess had handed him on the plane. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So there they are, three classic preconditions of a plane crash, the same three that set the stage for Avianca 052: a minor technical malfunction; bad weather; and a tired pilot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He uses words like purity and the picture plane, but only among two or three, never with the whole group. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The plane had crashed and sunk in the lake and he had somehow pulled free. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never been on a plane or visited a big city. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small plane, the type bush pilots use to carry people over the roadless tundra and across the rugged mountains of Alaska where cars cannot go. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March 2007 I was obliged to travel by plane instead of boat, because there is no longer any regular ferry service from Athens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

If Cecile had been arrested when we first arrived in Oakland, I would have called Pa, and Pa would have made sure my sisters and I were on a plane back to New York. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the plane reaches cruising altitude, she goes over to the woman and kneels in the aisle next to her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He told his friends about the plane waiting at the airfield, and his grandmother’s note for the pilot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Take the plane north, toward Central America and southern Mexico, into the bulge of the Yucatan Peninsula, homeland of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the 1982 Air Florida crash outside Washington, DC, the first officer tried three times to tell the captain that the plane had a dangerous amount of ice on its wings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“With the release of the bomb, the plane was instantly nine thousand pounds lighter,” Tibbets said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all jumped out of our seats, but Father, because of his imposing stature, had to kind of crouch over inside the plane instead of standing up straight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be something to drink on the plane,” their mother says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“They took her into a room. But maybe she will be on the next plane?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“He duplicated yours. Hugo, when you do a cartwheel, keep your body straighter and aligned on a single plane, like a wheel turning. Hugo, do a cartwheel!” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Of course, during the war I read a lot about flying, especially about our fighter planes, which were shooting down the enemy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the plane the trees seemed to march to the horizon without interruption. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I expected to receive instructions on where we should sit on the plane or how we were supposed to claim our luggage when we arrived in Miami. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

How could pilots navigate these powerful planes—traveling at hundreds of miles an hour—while looking at the cockpit gauges, listening to the radio, evading antiaircraft fire, and dogfighting? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why they make us live in one corner of the city? Why don’t they let us fly planes and run ships. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wept like a slob on the plane for five solid hours. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“A little bit, but I slept a lot on the plane,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Boston was socked in, so the plane flew straight to Frankfurt from Philadelphia. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the pilot, and the plane, and down at himself— dirty and ragged, burned and lean and tough—and he coughed to clear his throat. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first plane flew from Nairobi to Frankfurt, in a country called Germany. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So the friend of the bosom has a holiday?” he said, on a level plane again, an easy camaraderie between us. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

These were not peanuts handed out on his recent flight but something acquired years earlier, back when all planes had propellers and pilots wore leather helmets and long, flowing scarves. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“See? She’s a spy. Get out of the way, Doctor. You saw the way she flashed the signals. She comes to the river every day before the planes come.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy cans full of fuel for the planes were attached to her wings and stacked up in the rear cockpit, weighing down the little Po-2 so that skimming the treetops was even more hazardous. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The planes formed behind him and a single vision passed through the mind of Bull Meecham, magnificent in its improbability, in its impossibility, but one that he entertained deliciously for a full minute. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, pictorial space must work across the picture plane, as well as behind it. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marti's plane had touched down at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport the previous evening. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though we don’t have hotel or plane reservations yet, something tells me that we’ll find a way to be on a plane next week. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wondered who was flying the plane and where he was going. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The 437th was based on the Stalingrad Front and had already lost several pilots and even more planes in the now furious battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tail gunner’s cockpit at the back of the plane stuck out and made an easy target for enemy fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No need to wave at the Russian planes above, you see. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they got to the target, they circled it twice in their small plane, heavy with the weight of the bombs hanging beneath its fabric wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I stepped off the plane into a jarring note. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He starts mumbling about his too-small backpack and the cramped plane and the whole trip in general. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He seemed more a machine than a man, an extension of the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother had paid for her plane ticket, so she'd spent that money updating her wardrobe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“If you see a single plane, you needn’t be afraid,” my mother taught us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then velocity—wings and engines—a smiling stewardess—but it was more than a plane, it was a real bird, a big sleek silver bird with feathers and talons and high screeching. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram’s body was being flown back to Bybanks, where my father would meet the plane. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I’m at the moment you hear the landing gear of a plane grind loudly into place, in that instant before your rational mind tells you it’s just the landing gear. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

After the broken phone and Dad’s expensive plane ticket, I didn’t want to make things worse for Mom and Dad. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

At 8:30 a.m., reports started coming in from the weather planes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On April 17, 1961, supported by the CIA and by planes flown by American pilots, a force of 1,400 Cuban exiles opposed to Castro landed at the Bay of Pigs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was not till he had actually climbed into Bernard’s plane and slammed the door that they gave up pursuit. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of midnight I woke up again: more planes! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then I boarded a plane and took myself five thousand miles away. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the plane had wheeled around and was already taxiing up to the start of the runway. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She articulated exactly how long since Maddie had piloted a plane, a known tact. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

To get back into Norway, they’d have to be dropped by plane—in the dark. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I come by plane, come by boat. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane is inside the building—breaking apart, exploding, melting, burning furniture and people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fifty minutes while the plane droned over Cornwall and Devon, then Somerset and the Salisbury Plains before reaching the North Downs and on toward Windsor and London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

We were hustled onto a Dakota, a large military transport plane that had seen better days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engines were howling again as though in pain, and the air inside the plane was acrid with the smell of machinery and fetid with the stench of gasoline. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Contrary to common belief, however, the bus doesn’t lie beneath any established flight path, and very few planes fly over it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below that, there were other layers, where her reaction to the plane crash was far more complicated. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My uncle is a pilot. He flies big planes that drop bombs. Can you turn it on?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was vaguely aware for an instant that the planes in his formation were no longer there, and then he was aware of only himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If we could follow the motion of individual stars bobbing about the galactic plane, they would resemble a froth of popcorn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago police were waiting when the plane landed at O’Hare Airport that night at eight o’clock. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gets me moving into that plane between dreaming and reality where only running seems to take me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I woke at noon, with a large, cottony skull, pulsing with hangover, to discover I'd missed my plane. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes she worked out that most of the planes seemed to fly in a kind of pattern, taking it in turns to land and roar away again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Someone else would be working steadily at filling fuel cans, and someone else would carry them out to the planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Another plane was crabbing in as low as it could safely fly, two broad searchlight beams stretching and leaping toward the ground before and behind it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the morning the men took out their maps and compasses, checked nearby landmarks . . . and realized the British plane had badly missed the intended drop target. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to get across the border to Sweden by bicycle and traveled from there, by plane, to Great Britain. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engines roar to life and the plane skips and then breaks into a sprint. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He was going now to spend a night in Boston before getting on a plane to Madrid. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I think it is for your own good not to get into that plane. It scares me.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Battle planes don’t trouble us, but the observation planes we hate like the plague; they put the artillery to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Johnson had hoped, several American planes were already in the air above the Gulf. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The world was scorched and harrowed as far as they could see, a sea of ash and char from the flat planes of the fields up to the hills and mountains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had a sudden picture of die plane, sunk in the lake, down and down in the blue with the pilot’s body still strapped in the seat, his hair waving He shook his head. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not just have your dad come and save a plane ticket?” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Maddie was trained not as an actual paratrooper, but she learned to fly the plane while people were jumping. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mom told me stories about when she was a kid, back before her parents died in the plane crash. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the other white people we had in Africa so far: Mister Axelroot that flies the plane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke would rise from the cay in a fat black column to lead the planes up the Devil’s Mouth. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But no, I am not in a hurry. I was merely concerned that you would not make the plane.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The plane shook and shuddered, and Shadow wondered, coldly and idly, if he was going to die. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She passed old vendors with leathery faces sitting under the shade of plane trees, gazing at her impassively behind pyramids of cherries and mounds of grapes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

When die plane ran out of gas he should hold die nose down and head for die nearest lake and try to fly die plane kind of onto die water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if it didn’t want to leave the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they boarded the plane, Carole would have to take a suction device for John’s neck—would using it disturb other passengers? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Terrorists had crashed planes into two skyscrapers in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was impossible for either of them to be anything but elated—one of them on her way to France, the other flying the plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We could be on a plane in an hour if we hurry. Start a new life anywhere at all. What about Switzerland? Wouldn’t that be nice, just you and me and some goats?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The plane, with the increased speed from the tilt down, swooped eagerly up and drove Brian’s stomach down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen planes had let down through a beaming white cloud off the coast of Elba one afternoon on the way back from the weekly milk run to Parma; seventeen came out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll change that the next time we have a meeting. It was wrong. Psychologically wrong. You were right to leave all that in the plane—absolutely right.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I take in the angles of the room, the slant of light flooding through panes of glass, the planes that separate us, the irony of drapes to create darkness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Often, what sleep I got was caught in the jet planes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes headed east across the water as the sun set. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all those people, hundreds of heavy padded chairs, and all those bags, how would the plane ever get off the ground? A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As their plane fell, colored flashes exploded from it—they were the aircrew’s signal flares exploding. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He guessed that without the propellor pulling he would have to push the nose down to keep the plane flying—he thought he may have read that somewhere or it just came to him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is true I did not take the fastest plane. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Investigators later surmised that the Avianca pilots must have assumed that ATC was jumping them to the head of the queue, in front of the dozens of other planes circling Kennedy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I asked the boat captains about that. They said we could try, but it’s a tiny airfield. You have to charter a plane two, three weeks in advance.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bull pushed the throttle forward and felt the plane become fire and speed beneath him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the plane had passed, she got up and hurried on to the airfield in her broken shoes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“She won’t be helping him fly the plane in the back of a Lysander, will she!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Together they shared the secret language of pericynthion altitudes and orbital planes and lunar equators. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Our emotional lives and his now moved on vastly different planes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, there was another air-raid alarm this morning, with planes flying over, and another warning siren. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised all the passengers didn’t follow him off the plane and aren’t waiting outside the door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

If Big Ma heard Vonetta and saw her standing like a shiftless bum on the comer, we’d be on the next plane back to New York City. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I know exactly how Lucy felt when she decided she couldn’t get on that plane to Dollywood. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The port, you see, is in imminent danger of attack by Allied planes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Money, God, race, sex, color, war, planes, machines, trains, swimming, boxing, anything . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth goddess’s dreams were so powerful, they cast shadows across the cave walls—ghastly shifting images of Nazi armies raging across Europe, Japanese planes destroying American cities. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Shadow tried to tell himself that everything was all right, that on Friday morning he’d be on the plane up to Eagle Point, but he did not believe it himself. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

After our “dismount,” it was hard to stay angry at Farmer as we boarded the plane to Miami. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But when Marcos announced his plane trip, no one believed that his contraption could be put to any practical use. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed an impossible task for an industry that as recently as 1938 had only provided the Army Air Corps with ninety planes a month. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

North of the city, we landed on an abandoned airstrip, where a cargo plane was waiting. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She flies all by herself in a small plane across the ocean. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained only a single plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Both crews went to their planes, but at the last minute, Phil’s crew was ordered back. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We can collect money for a plane ticket to Peshawar.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Skylarks sang in the fields around them, but every night the air raid sirens wailed in the darkness as the Luftwaffe planes tried to bomb the nearby city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The journey to Salva’s new home required not one, not two, but three planes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the plane engine changing sound—decreasing in pitch—awakened him, and he was embarrassed to see that he had drooled in his sleep. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They apparently didn’t have a deep interest in the plane figures that the Greeks loved so much. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“This was no accident. Two planes hit the Twin Towers and another crashed into the Pentagon.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My mom takes the middle so Charlie can watch the plane take off from the window. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, from the dark sky came a yellow flare, a signal from the German plane to let the gunners on the ground know he was up there. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Apa sits in the passenger seat, shaven and clean, wearing a white shirt and the only tie he owns, the one he wore on the plane from Korea. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Along with destroying breeding areas, adult mosquito populations were also attacked with the widespread use of the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, better known as DDT, much of it sprayed from planes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Or she’d tell other planes to give priority to the one that had lost its flaps, or whose pilot had a lump of shrapnel lodged in his shoulder, or something like that. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Marina’s plane came down near Saratov, painfully close to the familiar airfield at Engels, just out of reach and invisible in the storm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“And you eat and move around in the plane?” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were lined up, waiting to get on the plane. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked Ben looked for the plane again and listened for the old buzzing sound, the old familiar anthem of an approaching plane to announce the descent of his father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our plane descends through the clouds and my new city sparkles below, dazzling in the morning light. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d won the 1938 Bendix Air Race flying a fighter plane from Los Angeles to Cleveland, and later in life she would become the first woman to break the sound barrier. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He stood there, shaking his fist as the plane rattled the buildings in its powerful flight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though their pilots flew solo, the ground crew thought of the Yaks as their planes too. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks, maybe a month,” he said as he ran the wet cloth under his arms and the hard planes of his chest, water trickling down his torso. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His skin was beautiful, silky and russet-colored; his eyes were dark, set deep above the high planes of his cheekbones. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In one sudden movement, Jimmy slammed the tire iron down on the side of the plane with a metallic clunk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“This is one of the most advanced planes in the world. It’s supersonic. From here, we’ll travel to Tokyo in less than ten hours.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would have to come down near the edge of a lake and try to slow the plane as much as possible just before he hit the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Fadi watched her happy reunion back with her parents in Chicago, he wished Mariam were on a plane coming home right then. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It seems that two planes collided, unable to see each other in the dark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And if the second plane were horizontal, and friction could be ignored, the ball would roll for ever towards the horizon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His shirtsleeves are rolled up, which doesn’t solve much: the air-conditioning is on the fritz and the air on the plane is overheated. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane he stares through the window at the land below, at the snow-covered patches of the Midwest and at curving rivers that seem covered with tinfoil glinting under the sun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he says, ‘What kind of plane?’ and she says, ‘A G-IV.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If his plane was going down, Louie was under orders to fire his Colt .45 into the bombsight to prevent it from falling into enemy hands, then see about saving himself. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A cold wind sends the big dry leaves of plane trees rolling down the gravel lanes of the Jardin des Plantes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The plane’s shape darkens a shifting length of ground. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If the plane starts falling, you going to lead us out?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Whatever made him get on that plane ... it was leading him to those rooms.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers climbed up, listened to her, came over to my sister Mary, and led her to the side of the plane. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we were seconds away from taking the leap, the multitude of prayers that left the plane were palpable. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Erickson, based at the University of Pennsylvania, worked in concert with a Bolivian archaeologist, who that day was elsewhere, freeing up a seat in the plane for me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had watched in helpless anguish while the flaming plane slowly glided to earth, knowing that her friend Zhenya was burning to death in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Up die hill from the campsite the same windstorm that left him a place to land the plane—had that only been three, four days ago?—had dropped three large white pines across each other. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though the war was young, the plane was winning a reputation for being delicate, especially in the skinny wings, which could snap off if struck in combat. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She and her staff planned the best way to replicate the opening of the Martian spaceship in Grovers Mill, the bomber planes, a roaring cannon, and the gassing of New York City. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t think he could get on that plane. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I hung up the phone and bought a plane ticket. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bull screamed at an unwhiskered man who clambered off the wing of his plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out here on the water, the planes of his face were rimmed with blue light, as if he were a thundercloud brimming with lightning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here a long time." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then, when they’d flown back through the storm of antiaircraft fire and enemy fighter planes and were safely over Soviet territory again, Valentin let Klava take over to lead the flight home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The computer screen flickers, showing a tiny plane arcing downward from New York City to Los Angeles. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I like to think they keep the airfields back of the worst of the fighting, to keep the planes safe,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pushed the throttle, and the plane shot down the runway. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Klavdiya climbed into one of the Po-2s that seemed to be okay, but as she was checking the cockpit for damage, the German fighter planes came back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the plane was safely aloft, the machine that was Billy’s father-in-law asked the quartet to sing his favorite song. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German night fighter plane was picking off the line of Po-2s as they lumbered slowly into the waiting beams of the searchlights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane shrank before her eyes, then turned and grew big again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An engineer named Richard Whitcomb noticed that in the transonic speed range, the greatest turbulence occurred at the point where the wings of a model plane connected to its fuselage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I look up to the sky and imagine I can see Natasha’s plane there. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I got my first airplane ride when I was eleven, and the pilot even let me fly the plane a little bit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look. I came, didn’t I? Don’t start pushing me before I’m hardly off the plane. My god, I’ve been gone thirteen years, and you still think you can tell me what to do.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

As Bull turned his plane slightly out toward the sea, sliding down now, dropping in altitude, and preparing to land, his eye suddenly filled with another eye watching him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, they scanned the horizon for signs of a ship or plane, but there was nothing but those same darkening clouds in the distance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the third holding pattern southwest of Kennedy Airport that Klotz told ATC that he didn’t think the plane had enough fuel to reach an alternative airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They saw the blue light of tracer bullets as the German night fighter fired at the trapped plane—missed—and fired again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As they paused in front of the fountains there was a sudden roar and a propeller-driven cargo plane dipped down over the roof of the house and landed on the runway. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They got separated from the fighter planes of another regiment that were supposed to escort them and provide them with protection from enemy fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Other damaged planes began to peel away from the formation as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That morning, when they were leaving Helsinki, he had lined up the plane on the wrong runway—and his first officer had quickly pointed out the error. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The road no longer had the protection of the plane trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They said the Nigerians have been bombing and bombing Uli and no relief plane has been able to land in a week,” Alice said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A flock of pintail ducks planed down over the papyrus marsh and vanished among the reeds. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Yak was a sleek and speedy Soviet plane, easy to fly and easy to fix, and it could stand up to the deadly Luftwaffe fighters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped during the forenoon and three times we had heard planes coming, seen them pass overhead, watched them go far to the left and heard them bombing on the main highroad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After I glued both wings on, the plane got too big to stick back in its box, so I had to hide it under a pillowcase on the top shelf in my closet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I organized it, and we used my planes and supplies. I planned and supervised the whole thing.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The package was placed on a charter plane and flown to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoist myself onto the picnic table and lie down, and as my eyes adjust to the bright four o’clock sky, I squint a little and look for planes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was face-to-face with the enemy plane across a three-mile gap, on a collision course and closing fast. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And can I jump out of this plane right now and work in you? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just heard some good news!”—referring to a plane crash at Orly Field in Paris in which thirty-odd white Americans, mostly from Atlanta, Georgia, had been killed instantly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot did not move except that his head rolled on a neck impossibly loose as the plane hit a small bit of turbulence. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be the first time American planes had dropped their payload on Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Waiting for another plane, he crouched fetally, his arms cradling his head and eyes tight shut, and thought only of survival. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I watched as planes sank into them, and I stared, bewildered, at the TV as the unimaginably tall structures swayed, then buckled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Do whatever you can to get on that plane. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Seven of the eight pilots and navigators in those planes were killed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The lion jumped onto the aircraft, and the cords holding the plane began to groan. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. P didn’t want me dead, but I don’t think he would have minded if I’d been the only survivor of a plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The weather had changed and the mountains were full of air pockets that made the plane bounce up and down like a cork on a rough sea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard planes of his muscles press into me, and when his hips brush mine, I nearly fumble my steps. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then her plane, too, struck the ground on its belly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But you wouldn’t have known it, not with how they went at that fixed-wing plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“In Hatchet, the kid survives a plane crash in the wilderness. At least that’s what Leo says. I haven’t started it yet.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Much longer still since he’d boarded the plane for New York. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even get out of the trunk, let alone get on a plane. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He heard the afterburner of the jet kick off, the plane bank to the right and fade like a sliver of light into a blue sky. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The barrels were on skis like a sleigh, to take to the planes.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For she will be hungry—they serve nothing on planes these days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A plane passing overhead set his bone marrow to quiver. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud and the rest of the crew dove into the sea just before the planes began strafing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One of them had a magazine with a plane on it, waving it in the air. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the wind becomes so violent or unpredictable that it tosses your plane into a deadly spiral dive. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Whenever a Japanese pilot volunteered to become a kamikaze pilot he was given a funeral service before he got into his plane. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still dangling under the plane and every time he got close to the handle the wind drove him back. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Four hours after his departure, Powers soared over Sverdlovsk, an important industrial city that had never before been photographed by a U-2 plane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The CIA wanted to make sure that no one on the ground could retrieve the plane's sensitive equipment intact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a third plane taking off with them, taking advantage of the moon, but not technically operational—a new squadron member doing his first cross-country training flight to France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You could probably fly down there once a week in a squadron plane and bring back all the fresh eggs we need.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Everybody helped refuel the planes by carrying cans from the trucks to the aircraft; the armorers had to carry the bombs out to the Po-2s by hand as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Somehow he had to get inside the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while a wave of longing will hit me and it’s all I can do not to hijack a plane to Havana or something. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him,” Captain Wren replied. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fighter planes started firing their guns, and more and more aircraft joined the fray, until there were nine Soviet fighter pilots battling forty Luftwaffe aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We should grab the radio and call for the plane and go home and eat a hamburger and a malt, maybe eight or ten Cokes, a steak, some roasts and pork chops.... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the plane leaves the runway, and my body crushes slightly into the seat. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember the spotter plane?” he asked me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now that he was dead, they marked his passage to another plane in impersonal and almost tribal fashion—chanting, weaving mandalas, beating on drums, performing their own inscrutable and mysterious rites. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the airport Gogol stands in the check-in line with his father, who is dressed in a jacket and tie, clothes he still thinks to wear when riding on planes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We unbuckled our belts and waited while mostly men in suits, college students, and a few women with children made their way down the aisle and to the front of the plane. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My hair blew straight back but the plane didn’t budge forward because Dad had the wheels chocked with big wedges of firewood. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I looked out the window, I could see a man directing the plane onto the runway. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the plane, already in the overcast, entered into the sightless suspended world that had enveloped Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just got off a plane,” said Forrest, rubbing his jaw and squinting through his glasses. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I run back to the apartment like I’m skating on ice, like I’ve got the wings of a fighter plane, bursting through the door so quickly that Helena gives a little scream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The fight slogged on, requiring more people, more money, more planes and technology. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The wheels struck the runway and the plane pulled up by a small wooden house on the tundra, the terminal building. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The burning plane crashed while the searchlights continued to hold it in their lights.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He would get the fire going and the plane would see the smoke and circles, circle once, then again, and waggle its wings. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flying in a plane just makes some people sick. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The photograph had been taken on a sunny day, and the sunlight brutally exaggerated the planes of his father’s face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now the Germans could only get supplies by air, and the Soviets shot down their lumbering transport planes the second they got anywhere near their troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I saved my plane tickets, just so I would have proof that I’d actually gone, to show him when I get home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He and two other pilots traveled from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, flying in a special long-distance plane designed by Andrey Tupolev. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The armorers of the 587th made pillows out of their foot cloths and decorated them with planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I watch other planes taking off in the distance, and I can feel sweat forming on my eyebrows again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

American newspapers barely took notice: A story about a weather plane gone missing hardly qualified as front-page news. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed to send in an army plane to pick up Eifler and Heisenberg and fly them over the open Atlantic Ocean. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, it made a plane that was already difficult to take off even more difficult. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Navigating your way through life is like flying a small plane in a windy sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane landed with a bump, and a few passengers got off. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My favorite plane was the British Spitfire, which was a beautiful, graceful-looking airplane with a slender fuselage and a curved, elliptical-shaped wing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean, besides the fact that my plane crashed on a hostile island, we haven’t eaten in days, you want me to chug a bug, and you keep calling me New Hampshire?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A dinging sound rings throughout the plane as it levels off. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There, not far overhead, a squadron of Nazi fighter planes was roaring by in perfect formation. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As a final step, Katherine plotted the data in order to give engineers a visual snapshot of the planes disrupted flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, Air Force planes made flight after flight, carrying Americans and “at risk” South Vietnamese out of the country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Reminded how long it had been since she had flown a plane, Maddie made up her mind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Our planes were now bombing the enemy’s homeland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that there was nowhere at Pochala for planes with food and supplies to land, no landing strip. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane zipped over their heads, the men dove and lay flat on the marshy grass. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The plane is going so fast and the buildings zip by us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Resourceful as always, the young women collected the remaining fuel from each of their twenty aircraft and distributed it between eight lucky planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help, though—soon the entire left wing was blazing and the plane began to fill with smoke. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A lot of those planes were piloted by young men who’d never flown before. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When enemy planes were spotted, air-raid sirens wailed, warning Germans to black out their windows. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But she was still sorting out what she thought about the plane crash. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Toby shrank into the metal of the plane, trying to find a place the cold air couldn’t penetrate. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The following week she was back in the air, in a desperate battle that ended with her having to parachute out of her crippled plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They had left the runway in northern New York in the early morning, but climbing had brought them into the bright sun and it warmed the inside of the plane until it was hot. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

All three women knew that if too much heavy ice formed on the wings, the plane would become impossible to control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The sleeping pills that had been for the plane were still in their plastic cylinder, and also in the duffel I had a liter of pond water and a handful of foraged nuts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, as the two of us watched Barack’s plane taxi and come to a stop maybe twenty yards away on the tarmac, he was picking up on something before I did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They would be standing on their tiptoes, looking anxiously, scanning from one dark head to another as we got off the plane. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama looks as exhausted as I feel as we file off the plane and get into a line marked US CITIZENS. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once the plane door closed and the wheels lifted off the ground, we pulled blankets up to our chins and fell soundly asleep. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But in the eleventh grade, I got good scores in plane geometry from the start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He collects cigarette cards with pictures of airplanes on them, and knows the names of all the planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, a low-flying V-shaped formation of Capitol hover- planes appears above us, and the bombs begin to fall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Shadow hurried onto the plane, and they closed the door behind him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Was that a plane? Was that a plane?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He lowered himself into the shell of the plane and pulled his legs up against his chest, trying to think. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There are tall trees obstructing most of my view, but I can see the occasional plane, and I send it my love. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They’d take me aboard their planes and force me to fight, leaving me for dead along the magic battlefields. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The plane bounced off the ground as soon as we hit land. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He keeps saying that plane is our ticket out of here,” Mom said derisively. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As the great crowd dispersed, marchers and visitors scrambled to find taxis, buses, cars, trains and planes so they could get out of town before nightfall. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane steadied as we neared our drop zone. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

What intrigued me most was how soldiers, clutching wide-open umbrellas, jumped from flying planes and landed on the ground unharmed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: Would you jump out of that plane with an umbrella for a hundred million dollars? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she was posted to RAF Maidsend, an operational base for a squadron of new Spitfire fighter planes, not far from Canterbury, near the Kentish coast. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, six days later, standing at our local airport watching a tin commuter plane containing Katz touch down and taxi to a halt on the tarmac twenty yards from the terminal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He is the son of a famous professional hunter named Iain MacDonald, who was killed at the controls of a light plane that crashed on the African plains in 1967, when Robin was thirteen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby glanced at the plane, just long enough that Luke thought he might be reconsidering. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a clear and sparkling day when the Yaks arrived, and the young pilots of the 586th were thrilled at the dangerous beauty of their new snow-white planes against the snowy landscape. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Once they had to lift her out of the plane after landing because she was shaking so badly she couldn’t climb down herself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Bombs began smacking the water, smashing into ships, blasting planes parked on the ground, igniting fires everywhere. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately after her return she shot down two more Luftwaffe fighter planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That lady had only been looking out for her plane seat. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to make out what she was saying over the sound of planes and distant concussions, so we took off running across the bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The pilots all looked like that in September of ’40, during the worst days of the Battle of Britain—the vicar’s lad looked like that, running out to his plane, the day he was killed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When she landed, leaped out of the cockpit, and ran, people thought her plane was about to explode. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane, which was flying along in otherwise unremarkable fashion, literally fell out of the clear blue sky and crashed to the ground. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We watched the parachute come down slowly, and the plane streak away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t raised the plane’s nose at the last second, she’d have flown straight into the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova was less experienced as a pilot than as a navigator, and as the commander of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, she too had to learn to fly this difficult plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately he had a team of the nation’s best orthopedic specialists on planes, flying in to Boston at his expense. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hit some other plane, a space of no pain, no future, no consequence, no next moment, no regret, only this: a gun and a score to settle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I get that the spotter plane sees the shark in the water and the fisherman tags the shark with a harpoon, but can you tell me how the tags work?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’s on the plane now, so we can’t even page him. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took their seats in the plane and set off. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared through the plane window at the palm trees in the distance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Until 8:46 a.m., when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center and nothing would ever be the same again. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

That’s how I felt when I finally heard the plane overhead. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It arose like a cloud and settled upon her as the plane soared above. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, whenever four-year-old Jasmin hears the drum of a plane engine overhead, she rushes outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One day, Oshiro watched American planes as they dropped napalm bombs only a mile away from his team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now he was safe, or safer than if he went down—the plane was flying, he was still breathing. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked until the plane was right again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On it, Elizebeth had noted the time her flight was leaving Chicago—hours earlier than the plane that had crashed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t land or take off, because you have to use your legs and feet to keep the plane straight and to brake. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the girl who, knowing nothing beyond her junkyard and her mountain, had stared at a screen, watching as two planes sailed into strange white pillars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The plane sang in a deep tenor and Bull decided that it was an F-8 in the morning sky, though he was not certain. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were also finally granted access to a campaign plane, which allowed me to move more efficiently. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was flying to visit my father and the plane crashed and sank in a lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using this information, it was his task to devise a strategy for flying the bomb over enemy territory, releasing it on target, and getting away before the massive blast killed everyone in the plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard kids talking about the planes,” blurted an Indian boy. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The man before them was noble in appearance, and the shadows played across the planes of his face in a way that made their angles harden; his aspect connoted dignity. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You must be good to travel on a plane,” she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marina Chechneva would fly her plane so low on these missions that she was able to scream over the side at the waiting troops, “Take your ‘presents,’ brothers!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were still flying the plane, or rather W.E. was flying it with Gilly looking on and making admiring remarks from time to time, when Trotter and Mr. Randolph came out on the porch. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The men also burst into a clamor each time a plane zoomed above us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even though I knew the view was incredibly beautiful, my brain started misbehaving, and the whole time I was imagining a plane coming at the building, just below us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about it: the planes hitting; the billowing smoke; the towers as they fell. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

My stomach somersaulted as the plane dropped again. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When he’d made the raft before to go out to the plane he’d had his hatchet, and he missed it terribly now. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were fish at hand here, and he might not be able to get anything from the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are the plane tickets, hotels, car rentals, everything—and they don’t even know if they’ve gotten into these schools yet. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was one plane missing in the formation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie taxied her little plane to the apron in front of the Operations hut and idled the engine, waiting. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Picture the millennial plane flying west, from the lowlands of the Beni to the heights of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every time the plane hit a spot of turbulence, Percy’s heart raced, and he was sure Jupiter was slapping them around. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the leading plane suddenly made a steep descent, Zhenya swooped after him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sofya's hand froze to the propeller blade of the plane she was working on. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane dubbed "the black lady of espionage" by the Soviets revved its engines and started on a 3,788-mile arc over the Soviet Union to a secret base in Bodo, Norway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The chance that Toby had left Annie’s apartment, grabbed a sleeping bag, and gone back to the plane was pretty good. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As the plane drew closer and closer, he could imagine the man’s never-ending smile behind the window of the cockpit. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The plane was slammed again suddenly with another loud, jarring explosion that almost rocked it over on its back, and the nose filled immediately with sweet clouds of blue smoke. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then one more time, a moment later, from the opposite direction, the same plane. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When our plane crashed here, and we had to bury the dead and deal with really bad wounds and Miss New Mexico got that tray stuck in her head —” “Hi!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I would remember it the next day, when I boarded a plane in Salt Lake City, and it would still be on my mind when I landed in London. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, fifty aircraft and thousands of people in motorboats, on foot, on horseback, and even riding reindeer were all searching for the missing plane and flight crew. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon he could begin to make out the markings on the plane. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a spotter plane, looking for sharks from above. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Powers managed to knock out the plane's canopy and push his body out of the plane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He walked the road, not even glancing to the trees when he passed the plane, until he came to the long gravel driveway that led back to his trailer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took three big members of the American Legion and Barnie Buchanan to get Grandma into the front cockpit of the plane. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The plane had just done a steep climb from the reservoir basin—maybe it’s just his imagination or a head rush from the climb. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The boys didn’t see the plane at first and were ecstatic just to be in the woods. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, on August 6,1945, a plane took off from the air base on Saipan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed on the way, killing my uncle and seven passengers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The letter C identified a cargo plane like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, built to transport military goods and troops and, eventually, commercial passengers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They fought and struggled to get free of the plunging plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane bumped on the runway, straightened out, slowed down, and stopped: he cut the engine. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a charged particle bounces from one magnetic pole to the other, it must cross the equatorial plane of Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees would tear the plane to pieces as it went into them. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am in a plane with a pilot who is—he can’t fly. And I don’t know how to fly. Help me. Help ...” He turned his mike off without ending transmission properly. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn't a shred of humanity in her gray eyes, nor any evidence of kindness in the planes of her masked features. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jay leans, whispers in my ear, “Not sure anyone survives a plane crash.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A woman announced that his plane was boarding, and Shadow’s row was the first to be called. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The planes dived and climbed, the air was abuzz with the drone of engines. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We stare, our eyes on an even plane, like we are holding something carefully between us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Then, in an unsteady voice, he began naming aircraft, not thinking of the individual planes, just letting rote memory do its work, these forgotten phantom aircraft winging out of his brain on their own accord. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane continued south for thirty seconds more, following the same pattern, familiar and predictable now, and McWatt, lifted a wing and banked gracefully around into his turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then the plane came falling down on us. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that marvelous? It’s just like the plane in the museum you liked so much. Don’t you remember, Albie? I thought we could put it together, just you and me. Albie? Where are you going?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The plane banked sharply and headed straight at me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mary Lou, I’ve just survived a plane crash, and now I’m stuck on a hostile island with no food and no way off. Trust me, you’re not going to make me feel any worse.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then she walked to the plane with her husband. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We grew up in London," my sister says, and she already sounds more American than she had on the plane. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With slow, deliberate strokes, he began running his thumb over the crystal’s faces, once across each plane before rotating it and beginning again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Olanna could hear the sound of the planes far off, like gathering thunder, and soon the scattered sharp cracks of antiaircraft fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sofya had to do this again and again as each plane arrived. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Galina, flying after Marina, could hardly see the wings of her own aircraft—let alone the two other planes in the formation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Once, when a fighter jet accidentally passed too close to a U-2, the spy plane broke up amid the turbulence, and its pilot was instantly killed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could a plane even carry such a thing? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The light from his room above casts just enough light so I can see confusion across the planes of his face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luke hesitated, and then he told her how to get to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he came to the path that led to the grove of trees, he stopped running and walked toward the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When a plane went down they mounted extensive searches and almost always they found die plane within a day or two. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane landed at last, its wheels screeching, while Salva gripped the armrests and braced himself for what was to come. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was that if your plane ran out of ammunition, you could still destroy an enemy plane if you crashed into it on purpose. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone left on the plane is a man. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"When I made my report two days ago," he continued, "I deliberately refrained from mentioning that we have the remains of the plane—and we also have the pilot, who is quite alive and kicking!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was only able to squeeze one book in, sandwiched between the packets of homework I planned to do on the plane. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As the plane took off he fell asleep. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Lines on the plane are simply circles on the sphere that go through the north pole—the point at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed into a hangar and exploded. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In fact since Brian had come to the small airport in Hampton, New York to meet the plane—driven by his mother—the pilot had spoken only five words to him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, she’d seen the plane as it got caught in the searchlights and was hit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I move past the wounded, past the burning plane wrecks, fixated on the disaster ahead of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The only relief came from the open door at the front of the plane that our instructors—the Black Hats, we called them—occasionally looked out to inspect our drop zone. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The plane skimmed in low, teetered just slightly, and bounced along the runway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The secret was keeping your eyes glued to the horizon and noticing whether the nose of the plane was creeping up above or falling below the horizon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fed the radar information about incoming Allied planes to the gunners. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But you had to meet the next plane.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her words fell in between the sheets of rain like downed planes: defeated, useless. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I stepped off the plane expecting somebody to be waiting right there, and when I didn’t see anybody I panicked. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the pressure of him on her shoulders, the plane of his cheek on the top of her head, his hands holding hers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was stupid to think I could just come out here and get inside the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the spray planes were paid by the gallon rather than by the acre there was no effort to be conservative, and many properties were sprayed not once but several times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was lucky enough to die in his plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left hand gripped her shoulder, pressing her head tight against the hard, flat plane of his stomach. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed into the plane and, a minute later, was flying southwards, towards the river. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cheered, the boys and Anatole and our neighbors all jumping and screaming in our yard, when the radio said the planes had come into Luanda. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they told us this, people started running toward the sound of the plane, and in a few minutes it was dropping what looked like paper toward us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes would radio the reports to Tibbets, who, based on weather conditions and visibility, would choose from the list of targets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since I also couldn’t explain how Millard had known exactly when those planes were going to fly over, I didn’t bother asking. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It might not be on a plane, or even in a way they ever expected. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mayday, mayday, for pilots whose planes had been hit, and ships — was it ships too? — at sea. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women mathematicians dominated their mechanical calculators the same way the test pilots dominated their mechanical planes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ever since his trip in the air as a boy, he’d been uneasy about planes, but watching the P-38S, he felt a pull. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That was the secret Snowden had spilled to him on the mission to Avignon—they were out to get him; and Snowden had spilled it all over the back of the plane. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The glasses lighten and turn clear, so that I can see the inside of the plane again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg knew the cause—American planes buzzed 150 feet above the treetops, spraying a defoliant known as Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In some ways a jet is easier to fly than a plane with a piston engine and a propeller. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped everything and drove to the airport and got on the first plane to Logan, where I found Francis in Brigham and Women’s Hospital recuperating from two razor-blade cuts to the wrist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was the plane Elizebeth would have been on if she had taken the 10:00 p.m. flight out of Washington. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The plane was hard to take off, and once it was in the air at last, it was also tricky to land. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When she was about sixty-eight years old, Brave Orchid took a day off to wait at San Francisco International Airport for the plane that was bringing her sister to the United States. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was astounded that there was a kitchen on the plane, serving up warm food. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was a door at the back of the plane, and when he turned off the engine mechanism in the yo-yo, he was close enough to reach out for the handle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Behind her is a bald man with sharp planes in his skull. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In January the Underdowns showed up as a complete surprise from Léopoldville.They came in Mr. Axelroot’s plane, when the most we were really expecting was Potato Buds and Spam. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flight attendant greeted the elegy of scythes, and then the second they were past her, she turned, left the plane, and ran down the jetway. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The plane swerved to the left and started falling from the sky. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have enough recruits to crew and care for these complicated planes, and she didn’t have the time to train reinforcements. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He rolled back the canopy on his plane and sent a flare skidding green across the sky, then ordered his radioman to tap out a battle cry. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He contemplated the veil of Maya, the existence of various planes of being. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All numbers in the complex plane suffer this fate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The entire place was filled with model planes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It would be worth it But how to get at the inside of the plane? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But pay no attention to that bully. In Norvelt you can be as free as a bird—or a plane.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes those planes were so old they could barely take off. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have survived the crash because the plane’s main body was still intact. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cargo plane that Alex had seen when he arrived rumbled down the runway and lurched into the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

That is the plane Maddie was flying when she dropped me here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He’d suggest they hire a plane and have BBQ in North Carolina for dinner. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the talk of flying away in that plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look at the plane, and I send my love. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After that, most of those planes were taken into government service. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The empty land stretches as far as I can see, a brown plane colliding with the horizon. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

British and American planes waged brutal air assaults over Germany in retaliation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most, if not all, of our planes and boats were destroyed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Peewee had orders to be on the same plane back, but my orders were on a different set of papers than Peewee’s. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the plane steadied and then it seemed to go crazy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom sounded upset, again, which was a drag, because ever since the plane tickets arrived she’d been behaving so well. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was Natural Process; it was the slow shift of a pendulum’s swing into a different plane. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the moment when they were brought by a flying ambulance back to their own airfield, and Valentin Markov lifted Galya out of the plane himself and carried her to safety. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One uranium bomb, small enough to fit in a plane, could pack about ten times that power. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m inside the plane of focus, sharp and defined and totally still. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Federal deregulation has done the same for plane tickets and long-distance phone calls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They would have started the search immediately when Brian’s plane did not arrive. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The P-51 Mustang was the first production plane to use one of the NACAs laminar airfoils, a factor that contributed to its superior performance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jay loved the plane Mama and Doc gave him for his birthday and kept it in a special place in our room. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If I think about it, just a few months ago, I was ready to die, and now here I am on a plane to New York City all by myself. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t I know terrorists flew planes into the towers? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

As loud voices approached the dock and a plane droned overhead circling to land, Cole watched the white patch of hair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ben ran backward trying to catch the first glimpse of the plane, watching for the sharp reflection of sunlight off a wing or cockpit window, but still he could not see it. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you deaf or something? Get back in the plane!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard the plane coming back. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He didn’t remember walking to the plane or much else that had happened. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Besides, her parents had died in a plane crash. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If they were radio equipped, Maddie could talk to the planes the special duties clerks saw on their screens. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Forty-three seconds after dropping from the plane, at an altitude of 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, the bomb’s two pieces of uranium slammed together, setting off an explosive chain reaction. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the four hundred rands’ deposit, nor the sixteen hundred rands for the plane ticket. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane regains its course and dips over the mountain as everyone strains to see and listen. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They’re not alert, scanning the plane, watching close when people clog the aisle. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

With less than 100 feet left, they saw the plane ease off the ground and begin to climb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But using her hands as planes, Lilya was able to describe the maneuvering of their aerial dogfight blow by blow, and the German pilot had to admit that this novice fighter had defeated him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“He is in Britain. Our contact in Sweden tells us that he has been taken across the North Sea in a fighter plane. And what do you think he is doing there?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood red, its planes dull and blunted with sweetness, its edges rigid with juice. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The change of command ceremony took place the moment his plane arrived at Smythe Field. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the United States entered World War Two, there were a bunch of American pilots in China. They were called the Flying Tigers. They flew those planes with the shark teeth on the nose.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“My uncle flew a plane in the war. He bombed Germany. It’s strange to think of him doing something like this.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she hears the drone of a plane outside, she covers her ears and crouches. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The plane hasn't even taken off before I flag down the flight attendant, ask for something to drink. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She’d been told who this group was—or who they weren’t, anyway—six of them, two of them women, jumping from a plane for the first time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

With Cassius Clay you hear the clash of fists, like the plane getting jabbed and punched. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could get on that plane tomorrow and fly right straight out of here, if only he would say so. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilot had jerked he had moved the plane, but Brian could not remember how much or if it had come back to its original course. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t suppose you’ve seen a big bird, wing- span of a small plane, likes shiny things?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everybody wanted to be sent to the front, and young women who had grown up firing guns and flying planes in clubs and schools were just as ready to fight as the young men were. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her plane crashed this morning and everyone from New York to Mississippi to Seattle is in mourning, singing her songs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There were three landing cables that could stop a plane from rolling off the carrier deck into the ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not clear what happened that night, or how many planes were involved—different people tell different stories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A pile of journals on the desk, the topmost splotched with ink from a pen exploding in his bag on a plane. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The very company of planes from their own regiment cheered them up as they coaxed their unreliable Po-2 homeward. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They dragged the body to the front of the plane, where the fire raged, and hoisted the flight attendant into it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When she was finished, they would stretch the banner between two trees in the hope that it would draw the attention of a passing plane or ship. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But then distant dust spurted from the plane’s front wheels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear Allied planes flying overhead and the occasional sound of bombs blowing up ground targets. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lead earlier and score a direct hit on the point plane, blasting a hole in its belly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Brian demanded that we leave all the gear in the plane or it would ruin the whole experiment.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A plane ride carries one of these infected persons to a new country, where still more Aedes aegypti wait to feed and fly off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Somebody from the house nearby screamed, “Enemy plane!” at the same time as Special Julius shouted, “Take cover!” and leaped across the veranda, overturning the palm wine. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A flurry of Navy planes screamed overhead, almost low enough to part a man’s hair. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All because she didn’t have any money to buy a plane ticket or even a bus ticket. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I want to be going away with Brian, like on a plane to the Serengeti to watch the blue wildebeests migrate. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was painted blue like the sky, with drifting clouds and tiny whizzing jet planes with white trails that crisscrossed in the clouds. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie examines the plane ticket and looks up at the signs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I can still fix this, I chanted as the plane lifted off the tarmac. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As I sat on the floor near the hotel window, I thought about my mother, who had agreed to pay for half of my plane ticket and hotel fees. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There are whispers about terrible things happening in Poland, about low-flying planes that shoot women and children, about German soldiers who machine-gun Poles and Jews over mass graves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot said the plane couldn’t wait for them, but that was okay with Percy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The plane stood in the field around which the race track was laid out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moment he stepped out of the plane, Arisue was hit by the horrible stench of burning flesh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason says, nudging me as they open the door to start loading the plane to Brazil. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I’d never been on a plane before, never stayed in a hotel or left my house for that matter. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The eyes of the air base turned in the direction of the fat-bodied transport plane that was bringing foodstuffs and airplane parts to Smythe Field, and Bull Meecham back to his family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had begun this waiting at home, getting up a half-hour before Moon Orchid’s plane took off in Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew attached steel cables to the bottom of the plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They dashed to the crash site and used axes to chop a hole in the floor of the cockpit of the upside-down plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Two days later, a second plane took off from Tinian and dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was supposed to be a change of planes, but they didn’t have another plane available until the next morning. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of a plane was fairly easy. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

British planes meant the Allies were advancing, taking the fight to the Germans. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We flew in a big silver plane,” Fern said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Family and friends had notified the Coast Guard, and boats and planes were searching as best they could. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I follow Zoe up another set of stairs, this one connected to a hole in the side of the plane. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Few black people, he had told me the night before, had ever been to an airport, and fewer still had ever seen a plane on the ground, let alone climbed aboard one. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young women of the 587th were miserable in these planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Dusya had been shot in the head by the Luftwaffe fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If the pilot died, if he died and Derek couldn’t fly, there would be nobody up front to control the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We want you to hop on a plane and fly down to us. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the window on the plane. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The engines accelerated, and the plane sped off in what must be the direction of Fairbanks. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always before, in any extremity, I had caught the first plane to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour now, the plane had been flying at just three hundred feet, following the Welsh valleys, dipping and swerving to avoid the mountain peaks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I have a plane to catch,” he said, pausing for a second. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The water was murky, but he could see perhaps six feet and there was no obvious way to get into the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson was traveling on the official presidential plane, Air Force One, when he was told about the Special Report. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The US fighter planes dipped below the cloud cover. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before long, Alex’s flight-sim training kicked in, the wobbly plane straightened out, and he sent it circling overhead, soaring straight and true. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wounded and bleeding, Lyuba managed to land her plane in the dark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the plane took off, the engines roared like a beast. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, the leader shouted commands such as, “Enemy plane flying in low from the left!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The steps were steep, but the stones aligned in even planes and provided an easy descent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They had all just arrived in Florida the night before, and that morning, at ten a.m., fifty beaming girls in outfits adorned with something emblematic of their states had boarded the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The eyes watched and those many-towered men knew that a plane was in agony and a pilot was trying to bring that plane home at his own peril. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Europe, Asia, Australia. If I got an itch, I hopped on a plane and flew clear across the world to scratch it.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Barry remembered their plane ride to New York the past summer. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

But at least no one tried to sabotage their planes, and in general they were treated with more gender equality than their American counterparts—possibly because the ATA included both men and women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A squiggle of turbulence, or a crewman walking inside the fuselage, would tip the plane off its axis. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Do you remember the part where I said Iran and Iraq had been at war when I was a kid and when Saddam’s planes bombed our city, I was just a baby? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A prominent Detroit internist was called upon to treat four of his patients within an hour after they had been exposed while watching the planes at work. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

All night long, mechanics refueled the planes and checked the oil and water levels as quickly as possible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was the last two demands that elevated the protests to a different plane. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes of his lined, wind-hardened face were dark in the afternoon sun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But the cargo plane was already in motion, rolling slowly away from its chocks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the Exhorter shook his fist toward the plane and yelled, "Hell with him, some day we have them too! Hell with him!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he’d tell us about how, when he was in the air force and his plane’s engine conked out, he made an emergency landing in a cattle pasture and saved himself and his crew. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell her that the plane was the most important thing about him, maybe his entire life. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For months, the little volcanic island had been attacked by our planes and bombarded by our ships. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They had to de-ice three planes. Ugh, that delayed everything. I’m sorry I’m so late.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I want to know if we’ll be sitting near each other on the plane. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Luke was still saying the words as he stepped around the plane, noticing how the leaves had blown around Toby’s body like he’d been in that spot for weeks. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Now that people knew where the plane was located, they had to figure out how to get to it on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She told him about the plane crash and all they’d done to survive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the horizon, a flicker of movement caught her eye—something small and beige racing across the fields at incredible speed, leaving a vapor trail like a plane’s. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Others had walked hundreds of miles to neighboring countries to be able to get on a plane. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And in the afternoon Mother took me to Hampstead Heath in a taxi and we sat on the top of a hill and looked at the planes coming into Heathrow Airport in the distance. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we still had to get plane tickets and visas and everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Daddy picked up the small wooden plane and made it soar through the air, like a little boy playing with a toy. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a real attack, real planes, real bombs!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About your plane ride. You never did expect it to get off the ground, did you?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, at 10:03 a.m., the plane hit something so violently and with such force it shook the ground. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Believe me,” I reply, glancing pointedly around the plane. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Was also developing a splitting headache, anxious about Julie, and wondering why they didn’t just set the dratted plane on fire and get it over with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Motor cars and planes go under water and submarines fly through the air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The nose of the plane rose up and we were aloft. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This is the plane that Hideo himself uses whenever he travels. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As Karl Johnson explained to me, “I’ve seen young physicians run from these hemorrhagic viruses, literally. They’re unable to work in the middle of an outbreak. They refuse to get off the plane.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane hadn't even left Paris when the New Yorker seated beside me turned to ask how much I'd paid for my round-trip ticket. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Brown dust engulfed the plane as we slid down the field that angled out to the right. Both the swift turn and the thick soil slowed the plane, and we came to a jerky stop.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the second plane hit, and someone who didn’t mean to holler hollered, that I looked up, there were hundreds of people around the televisions now, where had they come from? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the plane door opened a few minutes later, McNamara walked down the steps into a foggy Maryland morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The flights our new Boeing B-29 bomber planes were now making from the Marianas Islands to Japan and back were very long. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Garcia, as old as me, seeing the planes hit live. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’d get in that plane with his best friend of years and years and take off—never looking back. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The planes moved farther away in the sky. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I still haven’t gotten over my fear of planes and shooting, and I crawl into Father’s bed nearly every night for comfort. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We shuffle closer and closer to the plane. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When she says yes and I slip the ring onto her finger, the plane erupts with yelling and applause, and it’s as if all of us are possessed by something we will never understand. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two contestants had salvaged pieces of metal from the downed plane and were using them as tanning reflectors. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She kept it in her plane—she’d take it out and knit until she was given a combat assignment and then she’d tuck it behind her parachute. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Let me make it simple. No houses, no yachts, no planes. No stocks or bonds. No jewelry or art.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The officers of the other five planes in each flight arrived in trucks for the general briefing that took place thirty minutes later. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Does he know I’m boarding his plane at this very moment? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he ran out of fuel the plane would start down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The The Milky Way from slightly above the plane of its spiral arms, which are illuminated by billions of hot, young blue stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sullivan admired both Root and Adler but believed they functioned on a lesser plane. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I stood waiting at the private terminal as Barack’s plane touched down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"If one of these planes is shot down," he said, "this thing is going to be on my head. I'm going to catch hell. The whole world will be in a mess." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two fuel-loaded planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third slammed into the Pentagon near Washington, DC, and the fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The gentleman who stepped off the plane was in his sixties, with a pink face. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Moving through the night sea in enemy waters, our ships were always kept in blackout so they couldn’t be seen by Japanese planes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my eyes wander the sharp planes of his face. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how much he willed his brain to remember the plane the way it used to be, he could only see it the way it was now—broken and incomplete. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The plane swerved, dove, and skimmed about thirty feet above the ground. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it climbed above the atmosphere and the air ran out, the aerospace plane would have to switch to rocket engines. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above, a silver plane crossed the sky, silent as a spider. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl tipping up a plane in a sheep field. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As the hard frosts grew less reliable, the planes continued to struggle to take off out of the mud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had seemed so upbeat on the plane. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1941, the Luftwaffe regularly sent spy planes over Russian troops and Russian cities. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Raya’s plane had been damaged, but she could still control it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t trust him,” Milo brooded in the plane, with a backward nod toward Orr, who was curled up like a tangled rope on the low bushels of chick-peas, trying torturedly to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A line of planes stood at the gates and on the tarmac, one of them painted with the bright red Virgin Atlantic symbol. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“A couple of months ago, Mrs. Ruiz’s only son had tried to hijack a plane in Havana to go to Miami. He was shot and killed by the airplane’s pilot.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I could almost see the widow cleaning it behind closed doors, her big, meaty hands moving with as much care over the hard metal surfaces as they would over the planes of a corpse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“After the plane ride we went and watched the screens in the control room for a while,” Uriah says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was an image of Ladybird Hope waving from a Corporation private plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Why not? I got us plane tickets. I booked us a hotel.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re inside a plane with an open door, and a three-dimensional man is giving me the thumbs-up to jump into the open blue sky. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Brian had seen searches on the news, seen movies about lost planes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let my head roll all the way back on my neck so all I see are clouds, birds, planes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Terrorists crashed two planes into the Twin Towers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The planes gained altitude steadily and were above nine thousand feet by the time they crossed into enemy territory. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Typically, the plane would have been flying on autopilot in that situation, reacting immediately and appropriately to wind shear. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“They’ll pour out into the streets to wave when they see our planes coming, all the children and dogs and old people. Jesus Christ! Why can’t we leave them alone?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Those fighter planes only had room for a single pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I can say, “I love you!” when I see a plane. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As I lie here, bundled in my winter coat and scarf, I can smell Dad’s wafting pot smoke, and I find three planes all flying in a row in the dusky sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Other families from the massacre were on the plane with us, and people were in good spirits, if a little discombobulated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, there was a noise like fifty chainsaws over our heads, and we ducked as a plane roared by, the wind whipping our hair and blowing up a sandstorm. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He could hear it in his head, and like a crack in the fourth dimension, a fracture of the Euclidean plane, Sergio could watch it happening on the television. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Two planes were hijacked by terrorists,” says Ben. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made numerous conspiratorial trips abroad and traveled the country tirelessly from north to south on planes, cars, and trains, on none of which were there now such things as first-class tickets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

GDs in green suits walk across the wings and crawl under the noses, checking the planes before takeoff. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And Dr. Maria said, “Yeah, I don’t see why not. They’ve got oxygen on the planes, after all.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Desperate to get out, thousands of refugees headed to the airport and massed on the runway, making it impossible for planes to take off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now they were coming in waves of small planes called kamikazes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You hit a bird going five hundred knots and it’s like being hit with a bowling ball. Do you remember when Rip Tuscum was killed in a plane crash about five years ago?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My citizenship is an accident of birth, my mother delivering me on this end of a long plane ride from Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to forbid yourself from thinking that your plane will end up the same way. You concentrate on a successful mission.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But I have not seen any planes in the sky and have heard no bombs dropped. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I could do that, if someone wanted me to and put a plane at my disposal.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As far as the actual day he flew me out of the Congo in his plane, it’s hard for me even to remember what I thought was going to happen next. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s like we talked about. A man is in the plane...he will call you on the boat.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grin intended to steer the plane straight into him, to cut him to shreds in midair. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Salva could hardly believe his eyes when he boarded the plane in Nairobi. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world tipped and spun, and Shadow was on the plane once more; but the tipping continued. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Trapping birds near an airport does little to reduce the number of times a bird will collide with a plane as it takes off or lands. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The plane got smaller but then circled back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, I would take the plane down and look at it, but I didn’t add any more pieces, because I knew it would be more fun when Dad could help me. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle flies a big plane that drops bombs,” Billy said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Speeding after the other planes in the air, Raisa managed to chase close behind one of the men’s La-5s, a successful attack position, even though she wasn’t going to shoot at him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane they were escorting, a transport aircraft with good navigation equipment, landed safely; but the three Yaks ended up crash-landing in the snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Every day, Allied planes flew overhead, and the bombs they dropped got closer. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought the planes were Russian at first, flying so low that Marysia’s dishes rattled. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“They caught our planes on the ground, by God, on the ground!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the Bureau is going to load all of those planes with the memory serum virus to reset the experiments, will there be any serum left to use against the compound?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But she doesn’t, and he can’t, and his heart is on a plane over the Atlantic right now, coming to DC to seal the deal over a well-photographed lunch with June the next day. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Milo was dumfounded when he stepped down to the ground and found a contingent of armed M.P.’s waiting to imprison the German pilots and confiscate their planes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The planes were strafing and, just before Ugwu shoved the child down the bunker, a bullet flew closely past; he smelled rather than saw it, the acridness of hot metal. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Snowden jumped on a plane to Moscow and was granted asylum by the Russian government, putting him out of reach of U.S. authorities. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some small pieces and bits of paper floating on the surface inside the plane— dirt from the floor of the plane that had floated up—but nothing substantial. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I draw a girl on a plane, leaving her heart on the runway. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But when Klava tried to tip the plane forward to eject them, the control surfaces were so badly burned that they didn’t react. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One night, when I was having one of these visions, I had the startling revelation that plane geometry was, in fact, a message from God. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We saw the planes flying low, looking like hornets. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane to Rochester, most of the passengers were men traveling on their own. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s trying to put that person on a lower plane than you. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If he could get it out of die plane, or if he could just get into it and pull something out A candy bar. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped the boys off at the bus stop and, without asking, Annie drove Luke to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the roaring plane with no pilot he was alone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu looked up and saw the planes, gliding low beneath the blue sky like two birds of prey. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They took him off the plane in a wheelchair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was so far away that at times the strong glare of the sun blanked it from sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the top of the stairs while German planes flew back and forth, and I knew I was on my own, that I couldn’t count on others for support. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I am still unbelievably sore—not from the crash but from holding the dratted plane in level flight all during that final hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Now normally there would be nothing unusual in a plane coming up from the south. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been moved when the plane crashed and it might be jammed down under something else. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane then coasts out over the back bay, Balboa Island, and the Newport Peninsula before the pilot pushes the engines back to full and resumes the climb-out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Skies all over the world bore witness to four decades of successful Langley research, from passenger jets to bombers, transport planes to fighter aircraft. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He needs to get his w/op to send an RAF plane to take pictures for Moon Squadron approval. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

McCormick and Baron arrived in southern Sudan in a light plane flown by two terrified bush pilots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilots flying new planes could provide swift transport over otherwise impossible distances and heights, perform glamorous stunts and dramatic rescues, explore new territory...and, of course, embark on dangerous acts of war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I hang on as the plane navigates around the S curves, and my hands grow stinging paper cuts. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Together they became cold; and when the planes were gone, they would shiver, holding each other, until sleep came again. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Masha ferried three planes away from the advancing front that night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Until even the plane looked alien as he passed it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The UN people led us out to a plane that was very small and hot. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This simple construction, called the complex plane, revealed a lot about the way numbers work. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For every one German plane there come at least five English and American. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told little Billy here that they were using the big bombing planes an awful lot. His uncle is a bomber pilot. He’s probably flying his plane right now.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He gave the plane just enough juice to cruise to a stop and turn a 180 right at Mac’s feet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe their planes would be taken away to beef up an existing men’s regiment, and they’d be back to square one looking for a way to volunteer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I shot back, then took my place standing at the rear of the plane. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the sound was unmistakable, and when Harrison shouted, “Enemy plane, sah!” his words felt redundant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out my window, and I see a plane high in the sky, its taillight flashing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

All of them were looking up toward the north where the transport plane would come; the plane bearing the father who had flown off an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean for a year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planet has a few degrees of tilt to the plane of the ecliptic, not enough to make an appreciable seasonal difference in low latitudes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben’s got a computer. One plane hit, then another hit the towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At Newark International Airport, my sister and I find the check-in counter for the plane to Paris. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They hear a humming sound, the drone of a small plane, and they turn as the plane enters the valley between the mountains. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him all about it how loud it was when the plane lifted into the sky, each of us, leaning toward the window, watching New York grow small and speckled beneath us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Charlie gave me an awkward, one-armed hug when I stumbled my way off the plane. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She landed, unloaded her plane, and took off for home—but fainted from blood loss and crashed just as she was about to touch the ground again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I’m wondering if any of the people on the plane say quid pro quo. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I think I arrived about three years too late to get a clear interpretation of the research proposal, but he gave some clues—a spotter plane and seals. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There were no planes spurting ahead with wounded, none lagging behind with damage. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

You can imagine them all thinking furiously, trying to square their assumption of where the plane is with what their instruments are telling them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dozens and dozens of planes used Sulphur Island as an emergency landing field on their way back from bombing Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl at the meat counter is gone, and I can’t quite see the polite face of the little doll on the plane. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“What happened. All of it. How could a plane by itself make the towers disappear?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then there’s the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And the plane was too hot for them to go inside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If she didn’t get her plane back on the ground or jump out of it, she and her crew would all burn to death in an airborne inferno. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then the noise of planes filled the darkness everywhere. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad would’ve left his messages backward, until the machine was empty, and the plane would’ve flown backward away from him, all the way to Boston. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trucks roared up and down the streets, and planes and helicopters constantly landed and took off right overhead. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the final leg of the trip there are only a few non-Indians left on the plane. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dead smooth landing, the plane didn’t go ’round even once—I like to think this is partly down to my excellent field selection—made the tradeoff of goods and passengers in just under fifteen minutes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The plane came across rough winds, and it shook. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the pale suit was bigger standing than he had seemed sitting on the plane beside Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“But it was totally random that the plane was there?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Wind blows in unexpected downdrafts and updrafts as it moves over mountain peaks, and this can slam a small plane into the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I couldn’t wait for Dad to be home to help me, because I just wanted to work on the plane so bad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The roaring in my head was the sound of a low-flying plane. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were also seat cushions from the plane, a blanket, a kerosene lantern, and an old ham radio. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed his arms behind him like the wings of a plane and made staccato sounds like a jet on a strafing run, shooting imaginary bullets at the pilots outdrinking his comrades. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I wasn’t sure myself that I would go until I got on the plane.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The plane lands with a few bumps, and as we race along the runway, the forces of the plane’s momentum and the brakes oppose each other. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he stepped out of the plane, he almost fell down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane headed home, the crew felt a mix of emotions, including relief that the job was done and hope that the war would now end. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally had to make alternative arrangements and Kathy managed to locate someone to drive me to Bechuanaland, where I would charter a plane. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The plane shook violently,” he later said, “rattling and clanking as if someone had thrown a bucket of nuts and bolts into the engine.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A plane had accidentally hit one of the Twin Towers. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I was about to jump out of the plane. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"We took the next plane, and when we got there, I didn't recognize my own daughter." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The pilot called in an air strike and within minutes American planes sped over the village, dropping bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With fuel fumes filling the cockpit and making it difficult to breathe, there was only one chance to land the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Kissinger defended the attacks, pointing out that American planes were targeting military and industrial targets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I stand on the higher step in the atrium and he stands on the lower one, so we’re on the same plane. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Office of Refugee Resettlement for four one-way plane tickets to the United States. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

This, of course, had always been the fear—that some drunk, some group of high-school or college kids would be bored and use the plane as a temporary distraction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After Tonya had managed to land her plane safely, she and her crew had come to the same place to get their wounds treated. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Use your feet to turn to left or right,” said the tench, “and spread those fins on your tummy to keep level. You are living in two planes now, not one.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, Barry, it just makes my heart kinda sick when I think of all the bad girls whose planes could have gone down. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not long after sunrise on a Sunday in December, a pilot guided a small plane over the Pacific. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lera’s plane sped down the runway, which was purposely unlit so that German aircraft couldn’t find it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mitigation explains one of the great anomalies of plane crashes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On May 30, 1942, one thousand British planes attacked Cologne, Germany, leaving the Rhineland city in flames. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was another group of planes in the sky ahead of them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I say we snuck into a plane, you probably conjure up whatever plane you saw last. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Noor hadn’t turned the page since they boarded the plane hours ago. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The plane went roaring down farther and farther. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be much easier to pick on a single plane than on nine, whose pilots and navigators and tail gunners were all furiously firing their own guns and hurling grenades out of their cockpits. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Norwegians lined up near the hatch in the bottom of the plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This way, instead of every mechanic and armorer having to wait for their own plane to turn up, people could work efficiently on whatever needed to be done all night long. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When they were still well above the forest, the pilot slowed the plane still further and dropped the flaps. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If a family member was able to plan a visit in advance, the authorities would sometimes deliberately delay issuing a permit until after the plane had departed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had an awful job getting her into the plane, and they were wringing wet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had stretched very far, so far that she was afraid that when the plane touched down, the rubber band would break, and a part of her life would be over. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The plane took off in weather that was surprisingly cool for central Bolivia and flew east, toward the Brazilian border. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He then revealed that Soviet forces had shot down the American spy plane over Russian territory. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our plane departed Houston on Tuesday night, July 26, 2016, at nine p.m. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The plane almost seemed to stop in the air, floated on down toward the lake below and to the front, and Brian remembered the last time he’d “landed” on a lake in a bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As Larisa and Nadya recovered from the shock of their own bomb exploding beneath them, they found themselves swept by the headlight beam of the German fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then he unearths the emergency credit card from his wallet and buys two plane tickets, first class, nonstop. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The last part of Mom’s plane trip was a long moment when the plane was gliding over the runway in London, just barely off the ground. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

No, he would have commanded—and the plane wouldn’t have crashed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The plane landed ten minutes early, at exactly one o’clock Pacific daylight time. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were going to protect Saratov’s bridges and railways from enemy bombers, and to guard the Saratov Aviation Factory, the very factory where their own planes had been built. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tail of the plane sticking out of the water. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held back for a moment, uncomfortable with the thought of getting inside the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane flew into a brilliant Hawaiian morning. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I have a couple of Snaps waiting from Mya and Camila, looking sleepy but happy as they boarded the plane this morning. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Mitraillette, the farmer’s elder daughter who was the only other girl there besides me, was very jolly about filling the plane with rubbish. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Turbulent flows, like the swirl and churn of rapids in the water, resist the plane, slowing it down and making it harder to maneuver. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He almost missed his flight because, as the other passengers walked shakily to the plane, he stood aside, vomiting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I see the first plane, I make a deal with its passengers. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In fact he was about to go on a drop-off and pickup mission that night, a “double Lysander operation,” as they called it, two pilots flying two planes to the same field. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, Sofya and the others stumbled out of bed and began to defrost the planes by spraying them with hot water from a tank truck. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

At the station, in the freezing darkness lit only by antiaircraft searchlights looking for Luftwaffe planes to shoot down, one young woman was on patrol. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Farther back in the plane, staff and Secret Service members were watching movies and catching up on sleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now he had the plane between him and the approaching cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His face, with its exaggerated shadows and planes of light, looked alien and pained, like a refugee's. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The plane passing changed him, the disappointment cut him down and made him new. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited on the bank for several hours but the planes did not return. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My grandparents caught a plane back to Florida; Myron and I grabbed one half an hour later to Newark. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And the spy plane's structure had been designed for stealth, not strength. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only forest below now, forest and lakes and the plane droning. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Not how they found you, but everything up to that, and I put all my money together and took the first plane to New York." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually they sold almost everything they owned and used the money to buy plane tickets to somewhere else, somewhere better, which to them had always meant the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the “modern” plane crash that it is studied in flight schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He watched the plane pull away from the gate, through the plate glass. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She pulls out her phone and presses some buttons with her thumb, and we both look up, watching clouds—or, in my case, planes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She knew that the German fighter plane could climb faster and more steeply than she could. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was strangely easy for him to get in the bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Angel 5! Angel 5!” he said, “plane down in area approximately ten miles east of runway in the Combahee Island area!” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrels would travel under heavy guard, and German planes would fly overhead to watch the land on either side of the tracks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planes shine like gold stars up high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was flying, but so slowly, so slowly... it would never reach the lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull awoke and tried to identify the plane by listening to its pitch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sewed a banner to catch the attention of planes. You can’t see it now because they took it down.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The lakebed was on a mission to bury the base, the men, and all of their planes, and it was succeeding. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He turned the steering wheel and yelled out as the Jeep spun across the runway, behind the plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A plane would fly to its target and come back, land, refuel, and reload with fresh bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jets like the T-33 are smoother and quieter than prop planes, and more fun to fly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No way he’d put us on a plane if it were dangerous.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the pilots climbed out of their planes, they were surprised to discover that Tamara and Raya had taken off while they were away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Manman,” I whisper to the glass, hoping that my voice will ease through, fly above all those people’s heads, travel on a plane back to New York, and reach her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of jumping out of a plane with an oversize silk umbrella would have made Alex sick with fear—but only that morning he’d been told that he wouldn’t in fact be jumping. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was a set of metal stairs going up to the plane. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Likely she would run through the fields dressed in sackcloth, hunting hyssop amongst the wild bulls, if not obligated to the higher plane of Motherhood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours I listened to their talk of planes, women, guns, politics, and crime. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, early for our plane to Moscow, we had breakfast at an airport cafe. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A new long-distance flight record in a Soviet plane would make a fine political statement to the Germans: our long-range bombers won’t have any trouble reaching Greater Germany if war breaks out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The train rattles forward, jostles from side to side, its engine making a sound like the propeller of a plane. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This girl lives on a totally different dimensional plane than the rest of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was on planes and in airports for fifteen hours, getting there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I could see myself there, starting from the moment I stepped off the plane into the warm Australian summer. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The tires screeched as they hit the ground, then the plane roared to a stop. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They flew in formation, fired at targets pulled by tow planes, simulated combat runs, and dive- bombed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had both died in another accident, this one a plane crash, a few weeks after he had been born. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When the twins burst into the clearing that held the plane, they both froze. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Did the folks inside the buildings know a plane had crashed? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I figured he’d choose the big ones—like her secretly saving up for three years in a row to buy him that expensive plane saw he was coveting over at Sears. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

His wing broke off at the base, and his plane dropped like a rock and was almost out of sight in an instant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Three enormous planes flew by, high up in the clouds, raining tiny black specks from their bellies. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the night in a Polish village, too worried to sleep, and shared their “pilots’ rations of vodka, biscuits, and milk” with the boys who guarded their plane during the night. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, CIA officials privately believed that a pilot could never survive a high-altitude ejection from the spy plane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was crossing the Eastern Rift Valley. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I heard them: Russian planes strafing overhead. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The plane lurched upward buoyantly with the lightened load. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Billy, knowing the plane was going to crash pretty soon, closed his eyes, traveled in time back to 1944. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning burst in blinding flashes around the plane. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Over the next three and a half years, American planes would drop a daily average of eight hundred tons of bombs on targets in North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In a fancy blue uniform and flying in a plane like this every day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny drone but as before it didn’t register, then suddenly, roaring over his head low and in back of the ridge a bush- plane with floats fairly exploded into his life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been moments when Jimmy had chased him and Luke before, but they went miles in a different direction to keep him from finding the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It is just after that moment that the plane, briefly, breaks out of the clouds, and off in the distance the pilots see lights. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The plane sat restlessly on the ground, engines throbbing, aching to be off. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The branches of the plane trees bumpy with buds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about skyscrapers made with moving parts, so they could rearrange themselves when they had to, and even open holes in their middles for planes to fly through? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pops open the trunk and takes out a blue rolling suitcase, the kind that fits into the overhead compartment on a plane. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The panels along the sides of the plane look strange, almost translucent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he spied the plane with the burning engine directly above him and screamed to McWatt through the intercom to turn left hard. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You and Orr have to load the bananas into the plane right away,” he explained. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s in the middle of the attic, the highest point where the roof planes meet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They reached behind them for the plane seat cushions, which they tossed to one another like juggling pins while Petra ducked under, scooting to the front. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Michael needing help with his navigation again?” one of them asked kindly, offering her a leg up the ladder into the back of the plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the middle of the night, Luke’s would chirp and he’d hear Toby’s cracked voice, asking him to come to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rome was in ruins, he saw, when the plane was down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Were with the camera, tracking to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, ladies. I’m guessing that’s where the rest of the plane is.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, Rodney says, “I did. I was the first one to board the plane. Just as I gave my boarding pass to the agent, I reminded Mr. Dimming that you were missing.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The air exploded and she stared up into the belly of the plane. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mom had freaked out over a ridiculously expensive plane ticket. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, my plane will arrive at two thirty. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I watch a plane zoom across the sky, and envy the power and control of it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The belly of the plane groaned open and we were delivered abruptly into the benign spring air of Fort Benning, Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bees remained there, like planes on a runway not knowing they’d been cleared for takeoff. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the pieces of each wing, putting the jigsaw back together on either side of the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Agnes watched him bump up to the plane and wondered if he would live to see her again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow I was up in the front seat of the plane, buckling myself in with trembling hands. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Name all the planes I have flown in the Marine Corps.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the buildings after that, the sea, the stretch of runway; the plane itself was gone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a year she’d shot down eleven enemy planes by herself, as well as an observation balloon. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That included their fighter planes and heavy bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All of us wanted to believe the bravery of our soldiers could somehow defeat the mighty German military with all its planes and tanks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Those guns on the mountaintop were accurate and hit many of our planes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea as an unofficial ambassador on a mission of peace but is taken into custody the moment he disembarks from the plane. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The fighting could be miles away—or a plane carrying bombs could fly overhead at any moment. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it got stuck, the navigator had to climb out of her cockpit onto the plane’s lower wing in the dark sky full of gunfire and jiggle the bomb free with her own two hands. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They grew too tall, too old to spend their time on fantasies—to believe that the plane held any magic. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was dialed into the day-to-day demands of his life, but at the same time, especially at night, his thoughts seemed to roam a much wider plane. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

New bomber planes roared overhead in flight tests. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane takes off and I watch London disappear beneath a bank of clouds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t eaten much on the plane and he was hungry. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It provides an abstract account of lines in space, travelling from the object, through the picture plane, to the eye, and an account of how these lines appear on the picture plane itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The night bombers didn’t need paved surfaces or even runways; the pilots just pointed their planes into the wind and took off from the dirt or the grass. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He felt a strange loss at watching the plane leave. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, other people knew about the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A startled silence was followed by frightened cries and aleluyas and the rustle of everyone rushing to get up from their seats and out of the plane as soon as possible. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even my own parents, though they arrived by plane from India, first stepped foot on American soil in New York. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Tents and trees were in flames, and Milo’s planes kept coming around interminably with their blinking white landing lights on and their bomb bay doors open. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the plane took off for the final hop to Vietnam, the conversations got quieter. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if she doesn’t get on the plane? What if she just stays?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I told him we had to leave in an hour to catch our plane. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were planes overhead here too, and the rumbles of explosions in the distance. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It pulled his head over sharply when the plane had swung around. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shot a glance at my watch—force of habit—it was getting late, and I thought about changing my plane reservation home. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilot pushed the rudder pedal the plane had jerked to the side and assumed a new course. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane starts to drop, my ears hum and pop. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Whoever can keep their paper plane aloft the longest wins.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At 01:42 and 23 seconds, the captain repeated, “Go around,” but he was slow to pull the plane out of its descent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Adams and two of the other nurses were assigned to the 12th Evacuation Hospital at Cu Chi and shipped out on the same cargo plane as Denny. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I looked up, I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Air Transport Auxiliary is how we manage with the RAF, ferrying planes and taxiing pilots. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t figure out what had happened with the plane. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, my entire body was sucked out of the plane, and I heard—felt—the aircraft speed away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She finally got a job ferrying aircraft, including military planes, to South America. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he didn’t mind that the flight had been delayed in London and that this stop at Kano to change planes before going on to Lagos would delay him even longer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between that plane ride out of Cuba and the drive to Lincoln to pick up Mama, I had grown up. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A truck was hurrying on its way to refuel the planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair- all together, brothers! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and looked in all directions and could see no land, nor plane, nor other boat, no indication that there was another human on the planet. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've got a plane to catch. If she wants to stay, let her stay. It's fine with me." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was an aerial view, maybe being shot from a plane or a satellite. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I hold my breath and wait for the plane to touch down. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The pilots were too scared to get out of the plane. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonya finally realized what was going on, and when she got herself out of her own cabin, her head cleared enough that she managed to release her friends from the crashed plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In and out of cloud the three planes flew, with the two pilots of the 586th teaming up after every pass, until they saw that their prey had crashed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then their plane slammed into the earth on its belly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He drove a sports car and piloted his own plane, which he once famously flew so low over the house of the school’s president that the machine’s wheels made a racket rolling over the roof. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jenna grinned like she had just jumped out of a plane unwillingly but loved it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nina Yegorova-Arefjeva, an armorer for the 46th Guards, said that “sometimes, when our planes were throttled back gliding in over the target, the Germans would cry out, ‘Night witches!’, and our crews could hear them.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the past three years he had devoted himself to rectitude and—I instantly saw now as he stooped out the door of the plane—growing a stomach. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The plane sailed and dipped and spread another word against the sky: GASOLINE. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joe and I flew home to America in the same plane, and on the way he told me about Prague, and his Prague had no relation to the city I had seen and heard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a small thing—an inconvenience, really—that made the task of landing a plane just a little bit more difficult. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then it vanished, as if it had fallen through a plane of water or mist. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On the plane down to Puerto Rico I figured I'd never see them again, and I'm sure they thought the same of me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After I get the plank cut out, Mr. Woodwell has me set it in his bench vise and he takes up a block plane. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Orr was in Rome, due back that same afternoon from the rest leave he had won by ditching his plane in the waters off Genoa. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Johnson authorized U.S. planes to hit targets in the North, the first American air strikes since the August 5 raids the year before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My mother will be on the next plane, I tell myself over and over again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The records show that you went up in Me Watt’s plane to collect some flight time. You didn’t come down in a parachute, so you must have been killed in the crash.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And if I’d had more pictures, he would’ve flown through a window, back into the building, and the smoke would’ve poured into the hole that the plane was about to come out of. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the planes were gone, and in the huge silence that loomed over the fields and trees and the village, there was not even birdsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

These must have been fierce winds, he thought, to tear up places like this—as they had the path he had found with the plane when he crashed. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A plane crash, then,” Alex said, thinking of the people pointing to the sky. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was quickly on a plane to Port-au-Prince, though not without a case of nerves when he walked through immigration and showed his passport. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’m never sure how much Freddy is aware of what’s going on in the world around him, so he surprises me when he zips over to me and asks, “Melly go zoom in plane?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the plane was introduced, there were several incidents in which B-24 tails dropped off in midair. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Larisa kept mistaking the antiaircraft searchlights on the ground for the headlights of enemy fighter planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly he said, “I hear a plane.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the whole kitchen crew was too excited and upset to notice: Japanese planes had just bombed a place called Pearl Harbor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could pilot the plane from there, if he could see around Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I asked without taking my eyes off the plane. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’m thousands of feet in the air in a “Freedom Writer Only” plane, on my way home from Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I feel sorry for all those people in the planes and towers who were expecting an ordinary day. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

However, Poncelet had no idea that projective geometry would reveal the mysterious nature of zero, because the second important advance, the complex plane, was still needed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The plane returned at so low a level she could see the men in the cockpit, their coat collars pulled up around their necks, their crash helmets and goggles gleaming. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Derek turned as if seeing the plane for the first time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

If he waited for die plane to run out of fuel he would go farther—but he did not know which way he was moving. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to Ashima that the next time she will be by herself, she will be traveling, sitting on the plane. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first model airplane I ever made was of a famous racing plane called the Gee Bee. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The planes were like explosives. Gallons and gallons of stinking oil, burning. Metal so hot, it lost strength, softened.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I say, "No, not really invisible. But radar can't see the plane. So it's invisible to the radar." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One pilot in the 586th got in trouble for keeping perfume in the cockpit of her fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Apparently my father had told my mom about my list in the plane on the way home, and I guess the news had practically knocked her into the Atlantic. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Come now, no indecisiveness. You were decisive enough when you ran to the back of the plane. Bring that formidable will to bear on this moment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then I climbed back into my maidenly spot in the backseat and didn’t say anything else till we got to the field, half an hour after the plane had left. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The plane jolts forward, and my knees almost rip through the seat in front of me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember the day when the plane flew over the community?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Phil stepped off the plane, he got one chewing out from a colonel. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, they each have a wide-winged plane with a long forked tail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, the first plane hit the World Trade Center. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each time the plane curved around I knew in my heart it would be my last chance and the bridge was singing, “Na-na-na-na-na. You can’t see me.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even veteran U-2 pilots like Powers found it thrilling to take off in the powerful jet plane. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the old man finishes his pipe he goes back to his bench and takes out a different plane. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, until there’s phone service and planes leaving Puerto Rico?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The emergency council meeting is more of the same: confirmation that the viruses will be dropped over the cities this evening, discussions about what planes will be used and at what times. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A little later, when the plane banked over the Bay of Port-au-Prince, he glanced out the window once, then turned his face away. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But now when summer comes our family gets on a plane, flies to Africa Hawaii Chicago. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on. earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aech and I both froze in our tracks as we stepped off the plane, gazing in wonder at the scene around us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On stiff and frozen legs, she followed the other students off the plane and into customs, trying to keep her eye on them as they were split into different lines. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The plane disappeared out and down in front of him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane lifted its nose and rose into the air. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

A severe cold snap was in danger of turning the water in the planes’ radiators to solid ice, which would break the radiators. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He taxied away without looking back and as soon as he was clear of the reeds he gunned the engine, increasing speed until the plane was roaring across the lake. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dove into the plane just as the stairs started to rise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I went to school with his son and I used to play pick-up basketball games with Marines who worked on his plane. Do you know what was different about him?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to steer a jet plane and make it bump into another one.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the same time the relatives were coming from Chicago and Georgia, the Marine pilots from around America began to land in Ravenel, began to arrive in transports and jets, and private planes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been talk of trying to get me out of here on that plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When he pulled, his elbow bumped the wheel and pushed it in and the plane started down in a shallow dive. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Larisa had managed to avoid the antiaircraft searchlights, and the German pilot's aim in the dark wasn’t accurate enough to destroy their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After all, soon after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the United States began shipping planes, tanks, cannons, and food to the desperate Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Cavalieri, every area, like that of the triangle, is made up of an infinite number of zero-width lines, and a volume is made up of an infinite number of zero-height planes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

British planes fly over Germany, littering cities with leaflets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hole in die plane was still too small to use for anything and now he didn’t have a tool. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was gone from the sky and the white plumes of floating smoke were thinly spread, vanishing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indenting the plane’s body inward along that joint reduced the drag dramatically and resulted in an increase of as much as 25 percent in the planes speed for the same level of power. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We accomplish the ring plane crossing and suffer no collisions with the particles and boulders of the newly discovered rings of Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Air Force didn’t have enough fighter planes to fight back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I huddled under my blankets when Pan Am and United Air Lines planes flew overhead, the engines sounding like insects at first and getting louder and louder. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Luke still couldn’t move when Annie got to the plane, when she started screaming. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her best friend, untangling herself in the back of the plane, shivered with dread and love. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Glide down, then slow the plane and hit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s a pregnant lady on an airplane, she’s named her unborn kid after me by the time the plane lands. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They finished loading the caskets, and the major drove his jeep around the front of the plane and signaled the officer with the new guys. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving from this spot will start the chain reaction that ends with me on a plane. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a Lufthansa plane that was supposed to fly from Philadelphia to Boston to Frankfurt. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm is not only a genius; he has the industrious, plodding patience of a tortoise crossing a desert plane. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the final letter, he wrote that he was leaving that afternoon on the diplomatic pouch plane. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy tripped, falling over the twisted plane’s carcass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The original writers show Tania scoring kill after kill as she guns down German planes and drops her bombs on German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When he arrived in Oakland, California, Allen walked off the plane and dropped to his knees. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Overhead, she could see military planes zooming past, heading north and east. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the front of the plane a woman screamed, halfheartedly. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This caused the plane to slow dramatically and almost seem to stop and wallow in the air. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have no idea how much longer the plane is capable of flying. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At Berkeley, Birge assured him, “the younger men now are being appointed and advanced on an entirely different plane from that of the older men.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Globular clusters plunge through the galactic plane and out the other side, where they slow, reverse and hurtle back again. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clench the armrests as the plane lurches into motion. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

With telescopic sights, a fine hair in the focal plane of the telescope provides a far more accurate guide to the precise alignment of a star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They sped through the sky until the plane became so hot that their parachutes started to smolder. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Brian turned the wheel left, pushed on the left pedal, and the plane came back around. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the smoking wreckage of the plane’s cabin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The plane was gorgeous—white leather, polished wood, and shiny metal. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ascended to the next plane, merely a pair of eyes floating through a dopamine haze. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s awful seeing the plane fly closer and closer, its silver nose pointed at the building. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two and a half hours of sitting in the car, staring out the window of the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always extra tense until I hear the whine of the plane’s wheels coming down. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The planes bounced and shuddered from the force of the explosions in the air around them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We have an hour and a half before our plane leaves, honey,” my mom says, but Charlie ignores her and tells us to hurry. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The swift roar of planes and the sharp ka-ka-ka of antiaircraft gunfire came from above and from below and from the sides and made her teeth chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the stunt, Marina was one of six women, each flying her own plane, and each carrying another woman as a passenger. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They met at the seventh of their appointed meeting places, among the roots of a plane tree in a shabby little square, and exchanged their news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a short while, plane and ship under control, she looked again at the children in uniforms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could it have been the cucumber on the plane? The little scrap of tomato in your sandwich?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve scheduled a plane ride in two hours for those who want to go. Are you up for it?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even from the middle of the river I could see the plane trees marching up the Bund in their white socks. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I was certain its body of knowledge concerning plane curves, angles, and polygons would help me design my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A week before I boarded the most memorable plane ride of my life, Valley Forge had selected me to be the regimental commander for the 70th Corps of Cadets. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Bolts, doors, wheels, red, white, silver, and black, the plane flashed before her eyes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firelight deepened the planes of her face till she seemed an X-ray of a girl. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We got out of our seats and followed the rest of the people to the front of the plane. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t she talked to one of these people on the plane? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But watch for planes in threes. When they spread apart, you know they’re going to drop bombs. Sometimes airplanes covered the sky, and we could not see and we could not hear.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was now in the air, the back wheels lifting off. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I look out the window, at the planes perched on the runway, gleaming and poised for flight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“How’d you know about the wagon? And the planes? Are you psychic or something?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He turns toward me, the moonlight highlighting the planes of his face, the sharpness of his cheekbones, and the points of his ears. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

That night I dreamed of flying and plane crashes and Judy stealing my lollipop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami pushed me into the plane, down a long aisle lined with seats dead-ending against a wall—my first glimpse of what New York would be like. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A man who travels a lot was concerned about the possibility of a bomb on board his plane. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from a men’s regiment of fighter planes who’d been assigned to protect the Pe-2 bombers on their next mission. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care what you say! My children and I are getting on that plane!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I told her all about the plane ride. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“B sixteen!” he says, rushing to a window to stare at the plane parked outside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The blood was already coagulating inside the wound, and it was simply a matter of bandaging him up and keeping him calm until the plane landed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We stood on the runway until another woman in a matching suit led us across the cement to the plane. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What about frozen planes, which could be safe from heat-seeking missiles? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if Masha and her crew tried to parachute out of their burning plane, they would surely be killed by the enemy’s guns as they fell. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not only did they have to deal with the turbulent explosions, but they also had to try to stay in formation behind their leader as everyone’s planes were buffeted about in the angry sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One of the first times I visited Mr. Muhammad there, I stepped off a plane into flashing and whirring cameras until I wondered who was behind me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would they demand that I be thrown off the plane? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the planes hired by the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets in 1957 showered down the prescribed DDT-in-fuel-oil with impartiality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her plane flipped and she was trapped in the dark and the cold. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Papa said those planes wouldn’t amount to much, but within a few years we saw them at the county fair. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Liberator was one of the heaviest planes in the world; the D model then in production weighed 71,200 pounds loaded. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Somebody closed their door in the next house and you say it is a plane?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later the plane passed directly overhead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smooth air flowing around the wing means the plane can slip through the sky with minimum friction, the way the most efficient swimmers cut through the water. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the third plane began to blaze, Larisa snapped out of her frozen terror. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Like a punch in the gut, it hits me that in a few hours I will say good-bye to my family to get on a long, cramped plane ride across the world. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she was still staring at the boat, but then I saw her gaze was on the vapour trail of a plane in the far distance, climbing slowly into the sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane ride in, I had read about a woman who had shot her husband and two daughters as they lay sleeping, claiming she was protecting them from “the bad people.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day they left, she remembers being on the plane and worrying about just how they would fly through the clouds, before realizing that clouds were not like cotton balls at all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But if I speak from a superior plane, that’s far more damaging, and contempt is any statement made from a higher level. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I can, once you lend the plane to me. With a pilot to fly it. And don’t forget—you’ll get General Dreedle.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use the automated landing system because it wasn’t set up to handle a plane with that much weight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So Marina made a special trip to Moscow to check out new planes for the regiment she was going to command. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Bobby always had a thing for planes. We used to build them together when he was a kid. We’d go up to the Palisades and fly them off the bluffs.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He gasped in utter amazement at the fantastic sight of the twelve flights of planes organized calmly into exact formation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were irreconcilably other, and never was it more obvious than when the three of us walked through the empty plane, the stewardess nodding sympathetically and gesturing us toward our row in the distant back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It turned, and when it turned, the whole circle turned inside, and the images that showed through the little holes changed: rainbows into stars, blimps into planes, flowers into dragonflies. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

We boarded the plane for the final leg of our journey, a short flight to northern New York. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With powerful jet engines and a wingspan longer than its fuselage, the spy plane was "part jet, part glider," according to Powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she was standing before me, and suddenly the atmosphere underwent a peculiar change - almost as though the two of us had been suddenly thrust on to some other plane of being altogether. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Valentin had to admit that the women pilots could handle their planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not realizing how low they were in the dark, the Luftwaffe crew had jumped out of the plane seconds before it hit the ground, and were killed by the impact. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I came in a real plane and we landed at Port Harcourt airport,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly I saw him in the distance as he nosed the plane down toward the far end of the runway. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe because there are fewer distracting features to break up the wide monotony of hill and plane. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sticks of high explosives fell swishing from two-engine bombers, including one old plane that came over every night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzz of the plane seemed to fill the whole sky and came from no one source. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the mid-1970s, we noticed that not only were planes flying over our heads, but helicopters on their way to and from the tankers that sailed off the coast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could wait for the plane to run out of gas and fall or he could push die throtde in and make it happen sooner. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she’d let me have her plane ride because she was too old and too big. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him,” Colonel Korn reported directly to General Dreedle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the end she was too mortified, and decided to go home rather than take up two seats on the plane. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Mama, that’s great! Can you and Papa get plane tickets? Do you need money? I have some saved up.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They were traveling now, singing the lead song, driving deep into an American night toward a base where the great silver planes rested, waiting for their pilots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I understand why the outside panels of the plane looked so translucent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The plane had been half empty coming from Mas-sachusetts to Anchorage. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used her computer to purchase a plane ticket to Los Angeles, booked an LA hotel, and researched used car dealers in the Las Vegas area. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the planes flew high and needled into the sky that spread above them like a thin fabric. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a plane with wheels." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had seen the building just after the plane had crashed. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never connected the movies and TV close-ups of planes with the things that I saw zooming overhead. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before the splendid Yak-1 fighter planes were delivered to Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He leaned down and gave me a hug, and my eyes slipped shut as I felt his hard planes against my soft curves. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The last sound of the American plane dissipated in the wind and there we were, in our cemetery. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane stopped in Khartoum and we lined up to go through customs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to push the nose down to keep flying speed and then, just before he hit, he would have to pull the nose back up to slow the plane as much as possible. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot announced the weather and time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday: two American men had landed on the moon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It felt like a giant hand was dribbling the plane like a basketball. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the first light, Bull taxied his plane to the end of the runway, looking back to see the long line of F-8’s following behind him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t even try to put this on me. You’re the one who has to take a canoe, a plane, and a bus to school. If you would be regular, I’d be seeing you every day.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The minute we step off the plane, we see Mami has not exaggerated. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I’m looking at her, but I’m not really seeing her, not seeing anything but darkness, not hearing anything but a roaring in my ears, like the sea, or a plane right overhead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you guys had your own plane.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On that October Monday in 1937, as search crews struggled to reach the plane wreck, Elizebeth could hardly take in what had happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A mature plane tree, only just in leaf. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought about it for a while and looked back toward the plane s johns. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad finally called and said that because of the snow, my brother’s plane was going to be very late. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X steeled himself to catch a plane as scheduled that morning to speak in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would hole up in the plane and wait it out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Toby reached out and ran a hand along the plane’s rusted frame, almost testing if it were real. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I wish that there was some kind of alternate plane we could exist on where he could be my boyfriend.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The first-class seat cushion absorbs my weight as the plane takes off, bound for the small city that will soon be in the spotlight. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Do these planes ever just fall from the sky?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Seventeen minutes later, the second plane crashed into the South Tower. Don’t look at this part,” warns Ben. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Men in planes and tanks, or armed with guns, artillery, and advanced weapons, tore apart the bodies of millions of soldiers and civilians. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Those planes belong to the syndicate, and everybody has a share. Confiscate? How can you possibly confiscate your own private property? Confiscate, indeed! I’ve never heard anything so depraved in my whole life.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo said that the sky was completely cloudless and Olanna told him that it was perfect weather for bomber planes, and they laughed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because there was Toby, sitting in the plane with a woman he couldn’t have known for more than twenty-four hours, drinking from a bottle of wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m about to put them on when the plane starts to move forward. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old woman was terrified of the glaring searchlights and the guns firing at the English planes overhead. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Luke had no idea why Toby was sitting in the plane with Lily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The plane is silent around me except for the steady roar of the engine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The men saw a purple-gray mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, its top reaching three miles above their plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Douglas? Prep the plane. Were leaving for New York. Yes ... immediately.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane to reduce the impact. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the planes and picture the passengers feeling sorry for me for shutting people out. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"You have a better chance of sprouting wings on your back than saving enough for a plane ticket, let alone a plane." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It is, in fact, just like the grid used by artists to establish the picture plane, and its representation requires the same techniques as the representation of a tiled floor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Air Force weather plane flying over the western Pacific detected high levels of radiation in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew firsthand from sitting on top of mine flying paper planes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Leave it all in the plane. Leave it or I’m flying out of here right now. I know what’s coming and I don’t want to waste it.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

That mixup brought on so many difficulties that just to get the plane back might take two years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Dad says, "Bingo! That plane is invisible to the radar. But does the plane make a shadow when it flies between the earth and the sun?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the green of the trees, endless green, and lakes scattered more and more thickly as the plane flew—where? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane begins to rumble along the tarmac, picking up speed. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The inside of the plane was decorated with balloons and campaign posters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lilya was full of energy and excitement over the new plane when she wrote her next letter home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“From the smugglers who wanted gold for fence clippers to cut into Turkey? It’s not like that, Baba. Europe is sending refugees back to where they came from. On planes and boats. Under armed guard.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would not be putting Lily on a plane and sending her anywhere early. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He fought impatience to get on the plane project and remembered sense, remembered what he had learned. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys screamed with laughter, trying to chase each other down as they popped through holes in the body of the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s toughen up. We knew it was a four-quarter football game when we got on the plane today. We just need to bow up.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union sent technicians and planes to Nigeria, thrilled at the chance to influence Africa without offending America or Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seriously, what young boy doesn’t want to be a robot with guns built into his arms and the ability to change into a Mack truck or a jet plane on demand? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

While inspecting a fifth apartment, a plane flew overhead, and he immediately vetoed it as being “too noisy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy kicked the body of the plane apart, opening it like a can of beans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The plane, broken apart like a child’s toy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I feel like I’ve been thrown out of a plane without a parachute when Jeremy says it—even though he means it lightly. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I explained to Billy as best I could some of the things that were going on, and he kept telling me his uncle was the pilot of a big plane that dropped bombs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We use her phone to check the local flights to Hawaii, and when we’re sure there’s no way Michael’s family can get him on a plane, Rhiannon drives me home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I nodded my head to the beat, I started wondering what had gone through Richie Valens’s head before the plane crashed into the unforgiving ground. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The passengers of Kathy’s plane seemed to be the only people in the building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The plane bounced hard inside an air pocket, and he remembered with a start that he had left his own parachute up front in the nose. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A plane ticket was expensive, but she couldn’t bear the thought of waiting, even an extra few hours. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a few announcements and some safety video about what to do if the plane crashes into the ocean, the pilot asks the crew to get ready for takeoff. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There was the blinking lights of a big plane right over us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the plane came in on its final approach, the pilots encountered severe wind shear. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The plane flew southeast over the Gulf of Tonkin, landing four hours later at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A scythe had entered the plane and was talking to a flight attendant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then, less than two weeks before we were scheduled to go, two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York City and another one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Allied planes dropped tens of thousands of White Rose leaflets over Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now, when he needed them, when the planes came, he tried hard to cling to what he still had, of cold, and to use it for their survival. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was so distraught that I wanted to buy a plane ticket and go find him. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Luke kicked the nose of the plane as hard as he could. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The pilot flared the plane out so that when it came down to the lake it seemed to be barely moving. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie swore, afterward, that the plane did not go down in a ball of flame until it had made at least two more passes over the runway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He was our pilot. Flew that plane into the ground—kept it flying straight and level so the rest of us could bail out after we were hit.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The problem was relatively minor; Glenn smoothed it out by switching the system to manual, keeping the capsule in its correct position the same way he would have flown a plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You didn’t even realize how quickly we were building new planes of our own. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Unable to see the other planes and without any way to communicate with them, Yevdokia turned around and flew back to Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I sat there searching for that plane, trying to hear it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The Biafrans are mixing up food and guns in their planes, anyway,” the redhead said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She also kept postcards and letters from the trip, as well as newspaper clippings about the plane crash. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were rescued on the ground by Soviet soldiers who’d seen the plane crash. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Thousands of kamikaze planes, suicide boats, human torpedoes, and midget submarines had been prepared by our enemies. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I clutch his arm as the plane bounces enough for me to make sure my belt is tight around my waist. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Sure it was. And he ended up buying the plane anyway. Hugh?” he shouted into the next room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Brian grabbed the wheel and pulled it back, too hard again, and the plane went through another series of stomach- wrenching swoops up and down before he could get it under control. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though the stories Chaim told were terrible, of German planes shooting down the refugees on the road and the executions of innocent men, there was more laughter than tears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was something coldly omnivorous in the massing of planes; it was like the gathering of sharks at a bloodspill. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the plane the cartridge exploded, releasing a cloud of acrid yellow smoke. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As Japanese planes dove over Oahu, more than two thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were none, but on the other hand the sky was mostly overcast and a plane would not easily be seen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The plane crashed on through the bushes and banged into another tree. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Acting under the Michigan pest control law which allows the state to spray indiscriminately without notifying or gaining permission of individual landowners, the low-lying planes began to fly over the Detroit area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The explanation was simple: clouds had covered the target before the planes could bomb it, and the mission to Bologna was still to be flown. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But it’s cruel to have them believe she’s coming on the plane,” I said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing her coming off the plane and realizing I was jealous of Chas did make me feel terrible about the whole situation. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The plane flew out of the clouds and into the clear blue sky. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I can't seem to remember much French since we got off the plane," I say, changing the subject. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gathering their carry-on luggage, they trudged off the plane with the rest of the weary travelers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. With coast guard and with planes.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far off, the quiet percussion of an approaching plane resonated over the field. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were long gone from thick, white clouds, the plane steadily climbing down. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A twin-engine plane crashed in the umber folds of the Adirondacks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because South Africa is below the equator, their seasons are the reverse of ours, so I boarded the plane knowing that I would bypass the winter cold this year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t any planes. We didn’t have any tickets.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the young women came running across the airfield in relief to welcome her back to earth, a smiling Marina climbed out of the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe we were moving; I imagined that the plane sat still in the clouds while the earth flew below us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the ground staff wrote the letter for her, perching on the wing of Lilya’s plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And inside the plane, near the tail somewhere, was the survival pack. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found it was very difficult to keep the plane going straight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped to my hands and knees and crawled forward alongside the humming body of the plane. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here she was put on another plane, a smaller one—the only one that flew to remote Barrow. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dishes had been washed: another air-raid warning, gunfire and swarms of planes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you think he went to the plane?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What would it be like having a plane crush through like a missile? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our plane, a giant silver bullet with wings awaits us at the gate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got so good at it they could turn a plane around in five minutes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, it has not rained, I told myself, for almost three weeks, and the fire planes have been circling the mountains and valleys, patrolling the mountains. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had to swear to it now, Luke still dreamed he’d come through the stand of trees and see the plane transformed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They’d positioned scraps of silvery metal from the plane’s wing at chest level and were using them to reflect the sun. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She said, “There were several girls who had asked to go to the front, and they were turned down. So they stole a fighter plane and flew off to fight. They just couldn’t wait....” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In a test flight, a pilot staked his reputation and his life on his ability to exercise total, direct, and constant control over the plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some, unable to book space on scheduled flights, had chartered planes. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d mash the pieces right up next to each other, where they should go, and imagine what the plane would look like with everything finished. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The hills begin to plane out into a high plateau, and the road widens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day —Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And X identified an experimental plane still under development, designed for the purpose of research and testing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

How on earth could Derek, with his almost paralyzed legs, get out of the plane before it caught fire? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once, for example, he and Duma Nokwe flew on the same plane from Durban to Johannesburg, and when the airline bus to town refused to take Duma, Kennedy refused to ride in it as well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she got her money, she’d be on the first bus, train, or plane she could find. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Raisa’s triumph didn’t last long, because at that moment actual Luftwaffe enemy fighter planes appeared in the air above the competition. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There’s a plane making its way west, and I mentally put myself on it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Candlelight flickered against the hard flat planes of his cheeks as he spoke. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

First, planes flew over dropping millions of warning leaflets, written in Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Ms. G asked for a final headcount to reserve our plane tickets, I never responded. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes," she says, "the plane was fine....I don't know, it was pretty big….No, they didn't serve food." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The pilot let go of his wheel, raised his hands in the air and took his feet off the pedals to show Brian he was actually flying the plane alone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t go dreaming about Hirohito Woods getting on a plane in his Sunday pants, knocking on my door in time for the sixth-grade dance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As the planes sweep silently in, I make another decision. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then I said, well, I didn’t have a whole lot of time, she’d better catch a plane to Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or forgo the northern route altogether and fly the imaginary plane east from the Beni, toward the mouth of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I notice the planes of his skull, showing through his shaved hair, and the jagged path his crooked nose carves down his face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In October of 1944 he tried to crash his plane into the aircraft carrier Franklin. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many of those planes did strike their targets. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the plane’s radar picks up the mistake, and then comes the key sentence: “Captain hit First Officer with the back of his hand for making the error.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

June cries first when she hears about the phone call on the plane, then again at Henry standing up to Philip, and a third time at the crowd outside Buckingham Palace. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had never been in any ldnd of plane, never seen the cockpit of a plane except in films or television. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, he believed the Soviets might be furious enough to, as he put it, murder him by “tinkering with the engine of a plane.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Simpson said that a plane had spotted two guys with what looked like surveying instruments. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German anti air battery shoots an American plane out of the sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I said her plane left in the middle of the night and she had to catch it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The first warning siren went off in the morning while we were at breakfast, but we paid no attention, because it only meant that the planes were crossing the coast. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were Allied planes, dropping bombs somewhere in the distance! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pane of glass thus constitutes the picture plane, and the image drawn on to it can then be copied on to another surface. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We had heard stories during training about people who, after the Black Hat yelled “Green light go,” had tried to stay in the plane. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Shazam! waves his hands like he’s conducting a plane landing in front of him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

There was a helipad with a “Channel Five Fort Lauderdale” helicopter on it, and a short runway with a Learjet and a propeller plane that looked like a World War II fighter. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first he thought that his own plane was on fire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The other women shook her roughly, as the wa-wa-wa roar of the overhead planes came closer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined Akira growing up, flying a plane and dropping a bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You always have a plan, Addy. The rest of us just hike. You’re always watching, looking for paths, trails. Isn’t that what a map is? Entrances, exits? Isn’t that what you did on the plane?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the plane flew over the beach, the people down below looked like ants wandering in and out of the water. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She turned too steeply as she was climbing, and instead of lifting off into the sky, her plane crashed a little way beyond the airfield, killing Lera. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plane rattled so badly Barry was sure one of the wings would fall off. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

During my five weeks in the United States, I spent a lot of time on planes and waiting around in airports, where the image of Americans as hard workers was clearly up for grabs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He switched on the plane's surveillance cameras, readying them to take their precious, high-altitude photographs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Riemann imagined a translucent ball sitting atop the complex plane, with the south pole of the ball touching zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the 586th arrived in their Yaks, the enemy planes dropped their bombs in a snow-covered field instead of on their populated industrial target, and beat a hasty retreat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Rescue isn’t going to come from a plane. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One hundred butterflies tickled the insides of my belly as the plane went down, down, down. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She’d shoved two sticks into the sand and rigged a piece of metal plane wreckage between them so that it caught the sun’s light. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once, when the 46th Guards arrived at a new base for the first time, they didn’t immediately cover their Po-2s with the camouflage nets that hid them from enemy spy planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

George sets my backpack in a back closet of the plane. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The women of the 122nd Air Group who were going to be fighter pilots and dive-bomber pilots had to learn to fly new planes before they went to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Dinka never built factories or highways or cars or planes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the propellers was feathered and perfectly still, but the plane was maintaining altitude and holding a proper course. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

How wings worked, how the propellor pulled the plane through the sky. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the two until we were out of sight, taking off—both still intent on their drama, as oblivious to the planes as if they were alone in the forest primeval. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of being liked, he was dead, a bleeding cinder on the barbarous pile whom nobody had heard in those last precious moments while the plane with one wing plummeted. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband boarded the plane alone, while she was visiting the Doge's Palace with Barbarossa. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Partly it was the old pleasure that he always derived from mastering new tools and solving practical problems—working out the angles and planes at which the cedar would or wouldn’t cleave cleanly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gabriel called, and Jonas turned swiftly into the trees, though he had not seen planes in days, and he did not hear an aircraft engine now. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But all I can see is the plane slamming. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, in the past Dr. Z had always met his plane, waiting at the gate, craning his neck to look down the jetway to get a first glimpse of him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can tell the way he holds the plane and skates it over the edge. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This plane was built to take off and land on a ship, so it can certainly land on this.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was the only black person on the plane and I felt out of place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, as he stepped closer to the plane, he couldn’t think of any other way it would look. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The misery could not have been worse had they lost an engine in flight, as planes did back in the mortal days, when technology occasionally failed. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He straightened, revealing a woman’s face beside the plane, with long wavy hair and eyes like asterisks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If he pulled the throttle back out, die engine would slow down and the plane would go down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped the plane on the runway at Kennedy Airport and removed the doctor, who was carrying some $650,000 in negotiable securities, and jewelry that had belonged to his wife. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember when we were trying to fix the plane and we propped it up on those sawhorses we lifted from the road crew down on Highway 321? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t mention combat or planes being shot down. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Getting the plane ready to blow to blazes took a long time—and a lot of running around in the moonlight. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On the plane to Lima for Father Jack’s memorial service, Farmer wondered to Ophelia what he could have done to save his good friend. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Something exciting and adventurous. Maybe I should go to the airport and get on a plane. Or maybe I could become a treasure hunter. I read about that somewhere. I could also learn to dive...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It included a tiny paintbrush and pots of paint to make the plane look like it was from the war. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A plane crossed the horizon, colored lights blinking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The little plane jerked forward into a take-off, pushing Shadow back into his seat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This time there was no game cartridge in it, but he had slipped Bomber Boy out a long time ago and slid it across the floor of the empty cargo plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Repent! Repent! Repent!” the lechuzas screeched as they swooped down on us like a squadron of fighter planes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The twins came roaring back into the clearing, laughing as they jumped into the body of the plane like there were incoming missiles. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was greasy from being on the stuffy plane for so long. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The U-2's huge wings generated so much lift that the plane resisted landing; pilots had to stall the engines just above the runway in the final moments before touchdown. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The new man starts to walk down the aisle of the plane, his oblong, three-holed head turning from side to side. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard Grandma India padding across the room and felt the weight of her body shift the plane of the mattress as she sat down. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hat seemed to isolate Luster’s skull, in the beholder’s eye as a spotlight would, in all its individual planes and angles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gotten the idea for the picture from his last trip with his father to San Francisco, when he’d been busted trying to stow away on a plane to Peshawar. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I would get on a plane and fly back to New York if Big Ma showed up wanting her grandbabies. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid the plane could not really fly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flew straight, slicing without flinching through the plane of the mountaintops. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The plane crash. The Miss Teen Dream beauty queens on the other side of the island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Edward’s plane was landing in terminal four, the largest terminal, where most flights landed — so it wasn’t surprising that his was. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Bobby’s plane touched down at Reykjavik Airport, and he stepped on the tarmac, he didn’t kneel down and kiss the ground—at least, not literally. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Please ...” The plane lurched again, hit more turbulence, and Brian felt the nose drop. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the plane Gogol is seated several rows behind his parents and Sonia, in another section altogether. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to find him when I was ten years old, and from what I pieced together, I'm pretty certain that he died in some kind of accident involving a cargo plane. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When the plane returned from its mission, it would land in the mud, get pushed back to the platform, and the whole process would begin again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Even if you had gotten on the plane, you would’ve been caught when exchanging flights in London. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The alabaster is what gives your face its planes, its curves. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Sheep Sheep looked up at the lights of the plane cabin, lying on a cold tray table, it must have felt like an emergency clinic in Dubai. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from—and when we ignore that fact, planes crash. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t even known we would be in this particular country until just before we got on the plane. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But then I wake up in our nation of two, enclosed in our mosquito tent’s slanted planes lit silver by moonlight, and always think of Bulungu, where we first lay together like this. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed us as we said goodbye to our friends and boarded a plane for New York. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They represented the German’s deadly planes flying overhead. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After that night spent in the hotel, Malcolm X was police-escorted back to O’Hare where he caught a plane to New York City’s Kennedy Airport. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suspended, as in airports or dentists’ waiting rooms, expecting yet another interlude that will be textureless and without desire, like a painkiller or the interiors of planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, those firsts would pale in comparison with Johnson's new assignment: The president wanted a plane that could fly high enough to avoid Soviet radar, and far enough to cross the Soviet Union without refueling. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around the plane at the faces of my fellow prospective paratroopers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Today, our jet planes have made even the longest intercontinental flights briefer than the duration of any human infectious disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her heart was like a jet plane, zooming around her body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pushed the wheel back in, went too far this time, and the plane’s nose went below the horizon and the engine speed increased with the shallow dive. loo much. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Johnson left, Colonel Meecham walked to his window and peeked through the venetian blinds at the jet planes, their wings folded, sitting just outside the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we act splendidly on a plane,” Fern said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now African-American and white soldiers shared things like sleeping quarters, meals, equipment, foxholes, trains, planes, and cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the plane ride leaving Port-au-Prince for JFK, I had curled into my mother and together we looked out the window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was asked whether she was willing to fly on a plane and then if she was capable of living in a city characterized by severe, snowy winters, alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the dashboard of the plane, studied the dials and hoped to get some help, hoped to find a compass, but it was all so confusing, a jumble of numbers and lights. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how abstract the work or how conceptual the problem being solved, no one at Langley ever forgot that behind the numbers was a real-world goal: faster planes, more efficient planes, safer planes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath the plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn't just her ivory-white breastplate or silvery kirtle—she glowed softly from within, radiating a warm, comforting light that elevated her physical perfection to something on a higher plane. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The cloud looked so solid, I’d have sworn I could jump on it like a feather bed, and yet the plane cut through it as easily as a hot knife in butter. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat next to her on a plane, on a flight from Delhi to Montreal, and instead of flying home to his wife and son, he got off with the woman at Heathrow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I said it was close to time for my plane to leave, he said he had to be getting on, too. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where they were they could not see the planes, but the view was fine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She'd pop that invisible hat on her head, go to the airport, and get on a plane headed back to the United States. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg, who was heading home for a short leave, got up and followed the secretary to the back of the plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Muhammad with his personal jet plane from Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then everybody got snowed in when they stopped to refuel—they had to dig the planes out and drain their radiators before they set off again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the sky around him, Heiberg could see the other men, along with the supply crates the British crew had tossed out of the plane behind them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floats didn’t seem to slow the plane very much, as big as they were, and they skimmed over the trees until the pilot gained enough altitude to make them seem to slow down. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Karen, and I’ll be flying this plane today! ” she announces. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’d checked the Virgin Atlantic flight schedule and knew a plane was leaving for London at midnight. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Jerrie, who often hung back in conversations due to her shyness, spoke up with her opinion about the plane, which the Soviets had been having trouble with. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The warm glow of a table lamp softened the planes of Babou’s face and brightened his eyes. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get back there, I promise. Now help me watch for your father’s plane.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped it might be a plane from the UN bringing us food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian had thought at one time that he would never get in a small plane again, and when he went to visit his father after the Time it had been hard to enter the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Just lend me one plane from each squadron, just one plane, and you’ll have all the casabas you can eat that you’ve money to pay for.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Steel screams against steel as she slices a wing with her blade, and the plane goes into a spin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But one of the first problems she ran into was that everybody wanted to fly fighter planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that every plane has a red light on the left wing and a green light on the right for navigation?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Still, it was a plane, and this looked like my one chance in life to go up in one. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slackly, it seemed to him, and with reluctance, the twin attendants wheeled his plane out on the roof. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified, he looked up, but it was not a plane at all. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a smattering of applause as a seventh grader, flushed with triumph, reclaimed his plane, and we were under way 4gain. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white picture was of a man who looked almost exactly like Miles, one eyebrow quirked up, wearing a black flight jacket and standing next to a WWII-era fighter plane. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

My heart did its own sort of feathery flutter when the captain said to prepare for arrival, and the plane began to descend. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nothing to be afraid of, nothing to battle against, just the two of us flying together, flying the plane together, side by side in the gold sky. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Now, after a few hours of sleep, he was back in his plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Black Whip was for kids, but the Don did adult things like drive race cars and parachute out of jet planes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have another stop to make before we go to the plane.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded as if a jet plane had landed in the Tickhams’ backyard. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But I waited in the courtyard, under a plane tree. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Didn’t get to sleep on the plane yesterday, and I can’t keep my eyes open. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled off the plane, blinking and waking. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Very good. Miss New Mexico, what salvaged materials do we have from the plane?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I later learned that the United Arab Emirates had offered the plane, which was fully equipped with an onboard medical unit. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he reached for the eject button, Powers realized that the plane's centrifugal force was pressing the lower half of his body into the cockpit. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever they heard the far-off drone of the relief planes, nothing like the low-flying swiftness of the bombers, Kainene would say, “I hope that one will manage to land.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The body crashed down near her long American car, the planes receded and disappeared into the distance, and they all lay still for long minutes, until Harrison got up and said, “I am getting bag.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Out on the city streets of Washington, DC, Vietnam veterans were arriving by car, bus, plane, and even on foot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He felt a twinge of guilt; he had no business staring at planes when the ones who depended on him were still waiting. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m scared to jump, not out of the plane, but into the actual open space before me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted suddenly, “There’s the plane. I was looking right at the thing. I must be getting rusty.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had noticed our old rocket-candy rockets wobbling when they broke the plane of the mountains and got caught in the wind stream coming across the ridgeline. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d just about given up hope when a satellite picked up the plane’s image. You’ve managed to survive for all these weeks on your own? Outstanding!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But when the planes came, he wished that he could have received the courage. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had thought of forcing Mr. Grin to land the plane at Heathrow. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Federal Aviation Agency’s safety officer assured the public that “the planes are carefully supervised” and “are authorized to fly low.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The plane was about to leave the ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Derek nodded and stepped past him, balanced along the float and reached into the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and several of the girls slipped behind the curtains as if being sucked from the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In December, after I had submitted my last essay, I took a train to London and boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was far more reassuring to go on imagining that Linus had taken ill on the plane to New York. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a night where you can rely on just your eyes to land the plane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the war, well over a hundred women flew planes for Marina’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The airport manager in his tight-fitting khaki suit came out and shook their hands and said, “The plane is expected any minute now.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

To Sosie, Jennifer’s body was a surprise — the curves where she had expected straight planes, the pliability of a breast in her hand, the silky skin of her arms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The loop hadn’t yet reset, and the bog was pocked with bomb holes, the sky buzzing with planes, walls of orange flame marching against the distant tree line. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Luke intentionally went a hundred feet to the right, not taking a direct line to the plane. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He left his seat and hurled himself down the aisle toward the back of the plane. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t see the planes, and the pilots couldn’t see the landing lights. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first instinct is to jump out of the car to shout and wave like a deranged island castaway, but before I can give in to the impulse, the plane is gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had lied, of course, and had instead gone straight to his uncle to beg for enough cash to buy a plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It’s their tension, their hair-trigger excitement and blocked adrenaline that fills the plane, despite the lax bodies of the passengers, their fatigue and resignation. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fired their machine guns at the planes, but their guns were no match for the bombers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ad ended with the sound of a plane roaring across the sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sat with the pot of orange drink still in his hand, staring at the plane, not quite understanding it yet; not quite knowing yet that it was over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the airwomen of the 46th Guards improvised a way to get their planes into the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The tanks were defended by nearly as many planes, and about two million soldiers were involved in the fighting—a larger number than the combined populations of present-day Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Five times, Brown had to climb out on the wing to chip away the ice before the engines stalled while Alcock fought desperately to keep the plane on an even keel. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After another long Lysander moment, Jamie said abruptly, “Now don’t start weeping, Kittyhawk! Court-martial or not, you have to fly the plane now, because I don’t trust myself quite, not after that confession.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The plane door opened, and out hopped Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain, a fat cigar in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the press got wind of the Cambodian sorties, he could claim American planes had strayed accidentally over the border. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If he had to turn—if he had to tom he didn’t think he could keep the plane flying. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

For every six young of the 1953 hatch that had foraged in the stream as the planes approached, only one remained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Somebody told me a plane left for Lima this morning. Ivanito must have been on it.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gussaks cheered and opened bottles to toast the mythical line, but hardly had they taken sips than the windows became white and the plane was bumping along through a summer fog. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A regiment was usually divided into three squadrons of ten planes, with a squadron leader and deputy assigned to each. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As people walked out of the tunnel, I imagined he was somewhere in the back of the plane, telling the flight attendants stories, making everyone laugh, and us wait. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The pilot stayed in his seat and Brian moved the passenger seat forward and clambered out of the plane, stepped on the float and then to the dry grass. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’d always been impressed by the scenes of factories building planes and guns for the war effort—hundreds and hundreds of weapons coming off the line every day. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was demonstrating in this first image that perspective drawing involves establishing a picture plane through which the image is viewed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the plane taxied down the runway, the enemy suddenly let off a burst of rocket fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of having to wait until there was an airliner going our way, we could set our own schedules by flying our own planes, and save a lot of time. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamilton children went barefoot, and their overalls were patched and food was sometimes scarce, to pay for the crisp blueprints with cogs and planes and elevations. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s always weird to fly on a plane. Seven hours ago, I was in my bed and my mom was hunting in my bag to make sure I had my toothbrush.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I saw the crowd of fifty or sixty reporters and photographers, I honestly wondered what celebrity I had been on the plane with. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His existence or his nonexistence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They kept their planes close together so they could look out for each other in a fight. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He said, “Well, what would happen if a plane dropped you in the middle of the Sahara Desert and you picked up a single grain of sand with tweezers and moved it one millimeter?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every pilot in the 122nd had learned to fly in a plane like this one. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She joins the Soviet Air Force with her best friend, Nina, and they form a pilot-gunner team in a bomber plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ahh, there it was—the moment when the pilot had his heart attack his right foot had jerked down on die rudder pedal and the plane had slewed sideways. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment the figure emerged from shadow and the moon caught the flat planes of his glasses, turning his eyes into pools of silver. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone from the plane had jumped into a car and driven off. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Montsisi, who now talked on my behalf, told the official that the deposit and the plane ticket would be taken care of. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settled on the inner ash wood sill, leaning against the door jamb—cypress timber the skilled carpenter planed years ago and set up with a plumbline. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing the first officer says to the captain, just before the plane plunges into the Potomac River, is not a hint, a suggestion, or a command. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Gold traveled by train to Chicago, caught a plane to Washington, D.C., and jumped on a train up to New York City. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After the Games, they sent in planes. Dropped firebombs.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t see even a few feet in any direction, and— with no engines—had no way to keep the plane in the air for long. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I just have to work the same sort of plane geometry to find another point not labeled on our map.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

With the plane's nose pointing upward, the fuselage, with Powers still strapped inside, hurtled toward the earth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cover of the box showed a picture of a plane with gray and blue and white coloring. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Before or after you got on the plane?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of our plane trip, Quetzalcoatl had apparently conquered the Maya city of Chichen Itza and was rebuilding it in his own Toltec image. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He did not feel really safe until the plane had taken off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She stretched her fingers toward mine, and we held hands as the plane rose above the clouds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

By now there was a drastic shortage of planes in the Soviet Air Force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On a clear morning later that spring, a small military plane cruised low over the Plain of Reeds, a contested area near Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I spent my time flying older planes which were being modified in various ways. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane dipped and began to head north. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the morning of November 5, Election Day, Nixon climbed the stairs to his campaign plane, Tricia, named for one of his daughters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wake up, and my room is dark except for the shine of the streetlights and the planes and maybe the moon. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’d repaired their plane themselves, sticking wooden plugs into the holes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I recall raising my right hand, shoulder high and shaking my fist on the plane’s second pass,” McCunn wrote. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It barely moved and if he kept going this way he would just about reach the plane at dark. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Transportation Safety Board, the US agency responsible for investigating plane crashes, is headquartered in a squat, seventies-era office building on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Once their plane landed, they didn’t have enough money to get to the park. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On the plane, Reggie sat in an aisle seat, and struck up the conversation with a woman who asked about where he was going, and why. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A constant and steady supply of broken planes coaxed back to repair sites, new ones delivered from factory to operational base—all flown by civilian pilots, no instruments, no radio, no guns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There was nothing anyone could do; the plane came apart on top of him. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Back at the Frankfuit airport, we took a United Arab Airlines plane on to Cairo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theodore Van Kirk, the navigator, looked down, comparing the view from the nose of the plane with the photo of Aioi Bridge in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes felt as if I were floating through a strange universe, waving at strangers who acted as if they knew me, boarding planes that lifted me out of my normal world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The telltale sonic boom indicated that the plane had pushed through the volatile transonic region into the state of smoother, all-supersonic flows. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Like a painting was hung inside the plane showing us a glimpse of Cuba. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When it did, in England in around 1400, it took musical harmony on to a radical new plane, and altered the way music sounded for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So, here he was, in a bush plane heading north. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, about 30 of us Lost Children got off the plane, relieved but not knowing exactly where to go next. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now all the things that happened when he was alive are over and done with: the war, the planes with only one wing, the mud outside our house, a lot of things. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to the Rodina’s emergency procedure, Marina would have to escape from her cabin before Valentina tried to land the plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t see any planes, but I can hear them up there behind the clouds. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He did barrel rolls and wing-over-wing spins and even flew the plane straight down the street above their heads, inverted, then landed smoothly and taxied the plane right back to where they stood. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z