6 sentences with 'planes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word planes and other words derived from it.
• « The use of ships, planes, helicopters and tracked vehicles (when using naphtha) leaves residues of lead, a compound that is used in an anti-knock mixture that is added to fuel so that it does not explode when vehicles are started. Also, although to a lesser extent, fuel oil and paraffin release lead. »
• « The most effective support provided by Italy or Germany came from the German air force, the Luftwaffe, which used Spain as a training ground for real targets. The Loyalists had no means to fight the planes, so they suffered constant defeats and setbacks from German bombing raids. »
• « Meanwhile, fighting in the Pacific continued for months. By March 1945, US planes could bomb Japan itself, and civilian and military targets were destroyed, often with incendiary bombs. One attack destroyed 40% of Tokyo in three hours; the death toll was immense. »
• « However, American spy planes detected the construction of the missile site in Cuba and missile shipments en route to Cuba, leading to the point in history when the human race came closest to complete extinction: the Cuban Missile Crisis. »
• « The military saw mind control as a weapon: to be able to control the enemy's mind and even kill him, to communicate telepathically with planes and submarines, to know troop locations and plans, is too great a temptation for any general staff. They call it psychotronic warfare, a discipline that marries parapsychological powers with the technology to discover and amplify, and even direct them. »
• « The aviation war for the remainder of the 20th century has a clear winner: X-30 is its name and it could be the father of a generation of "rocket planes" that will make possible everything from military missions to a probable trip to a space station from any airport in the world. »