In the midst of his struggles he was arrested by the sound of whistling. Somebody in the distance outside was whistling, clearly and musically, a quaint, jingling sort of jig that struck familiarly on Desmond's ear. Somehow it reminded him of the front. It brought with it dim memory of the awakening to the early morning chill of a Nissen hut, the smell of damp earth, the whirr of aircraft soaring through the morning sky, the squeak of flutes, the roll of drums... why, it was the Grand Reveille," that ancient military air which every soldier knows.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
"Absolutely. The British are depending on their aircraft designers to do just that, if everything else fails. Of course, nobody knows yet how effective the submarines will be in our case."英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
It is not for history to prophesy. "Emblem of much, and of our Age of Hope itself," Carlyle called the balloon of his time, born to mount majestically but "unguidably" only to tumble "whither Fate will." But the aircraft of our day is guidable, and our Age of Hope is not rudderless nor at the mercy of Fate.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
Charles C. Turner, "The Romance of Aeronautics" (1912); "The Curtiss Aviation Book", by Glenn H. Curtiss and Augustus Post (1912); Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly, "Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight" (Smithsonian Institution, 1911); "Our Atlantic Attempt", by H. Hawker and K. Mackenzie Grieve (1919); "Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours", by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1920); "Practical Aeronautics", by Charles B. Hayward, with an Introduction by Orville Wright (1912); "Aircraft; Its Development in War and Peace", by Evan J. David (1919).英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
I have the whole aircraft to myself. I paid 165K.美剧 · 《Billions》
But nothing scheduled for almost a week after, so maybe I can come out to Iowa and we can-- - Russian aircrafts that ignore this... - What's going on?美剧 · 《House of Cards》
What does it mean when one pilot says to another pilot: "What kind of equipment are you on?" They just want to know what kind of aircraft you're flying: Is it a DC-:707, Constellation?电影 · 《Catch Me If You Can (2002)》