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  • His plane (a single-engined UC-64 Norseman, USAAF serial 44-70285) departed from RAF Twinwood Farm in Clapham, Bedfordshire and disappeared while flying over the English Channel.

    Five People Who Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth | myFiveBest 2010

  • The aircraft is single-engined, propeller driven and designed for private and general aviation use.

    Beautifull planes | My[confined]Space 2009

  • The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water.

    Five People Who Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth | myFiveBest 2010

  • Their successes were rewarded with the arrival of six brand-new Mark I Hawker Hurricanes, a single-engined, highly maneuverable fighter, whose fuselage, though still covered with doped linen, was constructed from modern high-tensile steel rather than the wood of the Gladiators.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • It is single-engined, supersonic, and stealthy, meaning it possesses a very small radar signature that makes it hard to detect.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • It would be so much easier if I could believe the official story that a few hijackers with boxcutters and some perfunctory flight training on single-engined planes could have hijacked four large airliners, silenced the crews, turned off transponders, and then expertly guided two of them into the Twin Towers.

    Why I still question 911 2008

  • On board the single-engined Cessna were the South African pilot, his wife, and the co-pilot, a dual French and Canadian citizen.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • There is actually another Cessna in Last Thing, single-engined, "flying low, dropping a roll of toilet paper over a mangrove clearing, the paper streaming and looping as it catches on the treetops, the Cessna gaining altitude as it banks to retrace its flight path."

    The Black Album Leonard, John 2005

  • 'Full opposite rudder, stick forward, full opposite rudder,' and stamping hard down with his left foot, and I remembered that 'stick forward, full opposite rudder' brought a single-engined aeroplane out of a spin, and I didn't know if it made the asymmetric wildness of a dead twin-engine better or worse.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • Kris's aeroplane, a low-winged single-engined Piper Cherokee, was approximately thirty years old.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

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