(1) This large monoplane , which rather oddly does not appear to be carrying a civil registration, was powered by a Wright Whirlwind of 330 horsepower.

(2) In 1926, he designed a three-seat Wright-powered commercial monoplane for Tony Yackey.

(3) At this time, the Air Ministry was not keen on a monoplane despite the fact that a monoplane had established a world speed record of 423 mph.

(4) Other models followed, including the Courier, the world's first single-engine monoplane with retractable undercarriage.

(5) The aircraft is a low wing monoplane with a fuselage of semi-monocoque design constructed mainly of aluminum with steel and titanium.

(6) Aviation surged ahead in France and in 1909 Louis Bleriot and his small monoplane crossed the English Channel - the first international flight.

(7) The graceful low-wing monoplane with its V - 12 engine was an immediate success.

(8) In the same staunch monoplane , the Lindberghs flew from Washington, DC, across the Bering Sea to Tokyo in July 1931.

(9) The aircraft is a cantilever high-wing monoplane and is configured for transportation, paratroop drop, electronic surveillance, airborne communications relay and medical evacuation.

(10) Their first airplane, the Cootie, was a single-seat monoplane with a twocylinder Lawrence engine.

(11) By the spring of 1908 he had completed a monoplane powered by a front-mounted automobile engine and propeller.

(12) In the following year he was given the go-ahead to build an all-metal monoplane that would become the Supermarine Spitfire.

(13) In 1884, an Imperial Russian Navy officer, Aleksandr Mozhaisky, used a ramp to coax a monoplane into the air for 65 to 100 feet outside St. Petersburg.

(14) True bombers emerge during the middle years of the war, in the form of large, multi-engine monoplanes capable of lifting up to a ton of explosives.

(15) Japanese had featherweight monoplanes and twinfloat seaplane fighters that sacrificed everything else for incredible maneuverability.

(16) At a time when American airliners were all-metal monoplanes , the Navy stuck with biplanes with fabric-covered wings.

(17) The War Ministry formed the Army Aviation Unit, purchasing eight French-built aircraft, four monoplanes and four biplanes.

(18) The rugged aircraft proved popular with owners but time began to take its toll and newer monoplanes began to replace the biplane classics.

(19) We've gone from delivering airmail in rickety monoplanes to checking e-mail in cushy cabins that roar over continents.

(20) In rapid sequence, the heavily-loaded single-engine aircraft, seven monoplanes and one biplane, were sent on their way.