plane
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The plane was understood to have taken off from North Weald and had been bound for Southend Airport.
From BBC
Chinese and Russian military planes last year flew patrols near Alaska for the first time, with Chinese long-range bombers operating from a Russian air base.
Gate agents explain that my wheelchair needs to be stowed under the plane, which takes time.
Beijing has amassed such a formidable arsenal of missiles that concentrating combat planes in one or two well-known locations almost anywhere in the region would put them in danger of being wiped out.
Strip mining leveled ridgelines so flat you could land a plane on them.
From Salon
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