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airplanes

n. (plural of airplane English)

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Airplanes (song)

"Airplanes" is a song by American rapper B.o.B, featuring vocals from Hayley Williams, lead singer of American pop punk band Paramore. The song was released in April 2010, as the third single from his debut studio album, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray. B.o.B co-wrote the song alongside Kinetics & One Love, Alex da Kid, DJ Frank E, and Christine Dominguez. DJ Frank E also co-produced the song with Alex da Kid. The song was released to iTunes on April 13, 2010 and then to urban radio on April 27, 2010.

"Airplanes" peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Internationally, the song topped the charts in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Canada and the Republic of Ireland. "Airplanes, Part II", the sequel to the song, features new verses from B.o.B, and a verse from fellow American rapper Eminem, while Williams's vocals remained intact. This collaboration led to a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Another part of this song titled "Airplanes (Part III)" is by Eminem featuring Hayley Williams, B.o.B and pop singer Travis Garland. This song has the same verse of Eminem as in "Airplanes (Part II)". It also features the same bridge of B.o.B in the second part. This song is in Eminem's remix album E-Pro & E-J

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But they could pretend that they had torpedoes, and if the oncoming battleship believed them, it might turn away and fall prey to the American airplanes aloft.

Stack, whoever he was, had solved his problem and opened the pathway to the development of airplanes that could break through the sound barrier almost as undisturbed as a horse-drawn carriage heading for a country picnic in 1903.

Pope stayed off by himself, reflecting on the tremendous price the nation paid and would continue to pay so that it might have small, complex airplanes that could carry fighter pilots safely in defense of the country, or large, simplified aircraft that could transport huge numbers of people from place to place.

From a first rapid reading of the instructions, Pope deduced that about two dozen Navy ships would be in position to monitor the flight and pick Carpenter up from whatever part of the ocean he landed in, Pacific or Atlantic, and that about 125 airplanes would be in flight to lend assistance.

Christmastime when the barges came up the canal and the gigantic airplanes dropped down with their precious cargoes.

Tugs were rumbling back and forth, tractors were pushing airplanes off the gates, and crews were loading boxes and bags and trays of mail into the bellies of large aircraft.

I could just see Little Pete Dwyer careening around the ramp devoid of motor skills, around airplanes, in a forklift or a loader.

The American fliers completed their mission without injury or damage to their airplanes and returned to base.

Then if you had to walk around the base with all this internal concertina, with all these unexploded pieces of ordnance, trucks, jeeps, and wrecks of airplanes, walls of sandbags and old tent pegs that were still poking out, you were obviously going to trip somewhere.

Initially every mission was a big gaggle, forty to forty-eight airplanes, twenty-four airplanes, thirty-two airplanes.

However, the further north we went the less our chances came of recovery, so we had a lot of airplanes shot down but very few people coming back.

I believe two airplanes were shot down and the other two barely made it to fields in Thailand.

I saw this myriad of airplanes up there, circling west of my position but I could see them.

And the flak was just set up so they knew what line the airplanes would come to bomb that thing and the flak was just set to shoot at them.

Other airplanes were called in, generally flights of four, with a variety of weapons.