Do we say aeroplane or airplane

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Most of our pre-arranged counter-battery shoots were carried out with aeroplane observation against enemy Batteries situated in the thick woods on the slopes of the northern ridge, the airman flying backwards and forwards over the target and sending us his observations by wireless.

But this clearance hardly showed in aeroplane photographs, as there were already many bare patches in the woods.

We had perfect flash-cover behind the ridge and were, indeed, quite invisible, when the guns were camouflaged, even to an aeroplane flying low and immediately overhead.

BRITISH ATTACK ON DUSSELDORF A new type of British aeroplane was developed during the war, capable of rising from the ground at a very sharp angle and of developing a speed of 150 miles an hour.

Marix's cap and the wings of his aeroplane were pierced in a dozen places, but he succeeded in returning to the burning city of Antwerp, which he was ordered to leave the same evening.

Within five minutes the bridge was in ruins and the aeroplane and its heroic pilot had been blown to pieces.

"We had no sooner taken wing than the aeroplane was sighted by German observers in captive balloons anchored about six miles distant.

"We continued to advance, meanwhile sending the aeroplane higher and higher until the barograph showed we were 6,000 feet above the ground.

Our machine was speedier than the German Aeroplane, which was constructed of steel and was so heavy it could not work up the speed of the French army monoplane.

One of its wings was shattered and it dropped, but the other aeroplane escaped.

" HOW A GERMAN AVIATOR ESCAPED How a German aviator in Belgium secured control of a falling aeroplane after his companion had been killed is described in a thrilling letter received by his father in Berlin September 30.

AND AEROPLANE FLEETS OPERATE.

During the day's fighting an aircraft gun of the Third Army Corps succeeded in bringing down a German aeroplane.

"Another hostile aeroplane was brought down by us, and one of our aviators succeeded in dropping several bombs over the German line, one incendiary bomb falling with considerable effect on a transport park near LaFère.

The only incident worthy of special mention was the passage of a German aeroplane over the interior of our lines.

They had been set on fire by four bombs from a German Taube aeroplane, and a huge thick volume of black smoke was ascending two hundred feet into the air.

Here's where our aeroplane is going to help us out.

The aeroplane had been shipped to New York, to be put upon a steamer sailing for Maracaibo, in Venezuela, and which they expected to take also.

There were three photographs in it: one rather bad one of herself, taken years ago in Rome; one of Paolo, dressed as an aeronaut; and one of a certain handsome young woman, very becomingly dressed to accompany the Prince for a flight in his new aeroplane.

She knew only that he and a somewhat notorious woman were making ascents together in an aeroplane.

It was about this time that Angela left Rome, and what Theo Dene wondered if Mrs. May "knew about the Prince," was his hope to break the record for distance in a new aeroplane.

" One morning in October, just six months to the day after her coming to California, she read in a San Francisco papera mere tucked-away paragraph to fill up a cornerthat the Italian amateur aeronaut, Prince di Sereno, had arranged a sensational flight from Naples to Algiers in his new aeroplane, an improvement on a celebrated older make.

Then she read: "In flight to-day aeroplane fell into Sea off Sardinia.

It was that no crash could involve his stomach, which he invariably left behind him as soon as the aeroplane rose.

He felt as if he were swinging in midair hitched to a scudding aeroplane by a rope about his middle.

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I wager, now, there never was one like itby airplane at that!"

During this time of mishaps and adventures for the submarine party, what was happening to the boys and the Major in their airplane?

In a short time they were busy constructing a rude shelter, and the airplane for the moment was forgotten.

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Due to the duplicity of this same bunch of predatory gentlemen the airplane and ship building program of the United States turned out to be a scandal instead of a success.

There were pale glimmers from the street in the half-shadow; and a quiet star or two high up in a dark sky; one seemed to be falling in a great half-circleit was only an airplane keeping watch over the sleeping city.

You would see an airplane hovering, and then, close by, suddenly, a ball of cottony white smoke.

An airplane was the only means of detection the Canadians feared.

And so, every once in a while, an alarm would sound, and all hands would crane their necks upward to watch an airplane flying above with an iron cross painted upon its wings.

Well, we takes that turn in pitch-dark shadow with all four wheels in the air, an' you'd 'a thought we was a blinkin' airplane a doin' stunts.

Pine and fir seeds are equipped with wings like those of a bird or an airplane.

The airplane and its engine, by Charles Hugh Chatfield and Charles Fayette Taylor.

Lady Lorna Rea (A); 27Jun56; R172827. READ, HELEN S. An airplane ride.

Wings over Asia; a geographic journey by airplane.

SECHLER, ERNEST E. Airplane structural analysis and design, by Ernest E. Sechler & Louis G. Dunn.

Airplane Andy, by Sanford Tousey, author & artist.

Walt Disney's Pedro; the story of a little airplane, by Walt Disney.

Jackie's airplane ride.

The airplane and its engine, by Charles Hugh Chatfield and Charles Fayette Taylor.

Honey Bunch, her first trip in an airplane.

Billy Smith, trail eater ace; or, Into the wilds of northern Alaska by airplane.

The little airplane, by Lois Lenski.

Eh, German enemy airplane detecting device.

Airplane performance, stability and control.

Probably it will continue to make them until the flying machine is perfected, and then to some extent at least the airplane will take its place.

Do we say   aeroplane   or  airplane