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  • Then, a slow-flying jet above the city erupted in a flash of fire, hurtling downwards and setting off a thick plume of smoke.

    Strikes Blunt Benghazi Attack Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

  • The slow-flying DC-3 lumbered north along the Loire Valley, which soon made everyone in the cabin nervous except Donovan because Luftwaffe warplanes with the retreating German army still roamed the skies and the transport aircraft had no fighter escort to protect it.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • The slow-flying DC-3 lumbered north along the Loire Valley, which soon made everyone in the cabin nervous except Donovan because Luftwaffe warplanes with the retreating German army still roamed the skies and the transport aircraft had no fighter escort to protect it.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • I would think a slow-flying round from a .500 would knock a critter so hard it would just fall over and give up.

    Very Little Drops Dead 2008

  • In a ground assault, U.S. forces may find themselves relying most heavily on the Vietnam-era B-52 bomber and A-10 tank-killer, a low-tech, slow-flying but punishing airplane.

    Air Power Faces Its Biggest Test 2008

  • Thus American planners chose to attack the main telecommunications building in Baghdad with an F-117A Stealth fighter-bomber, the angular, slow-flying plane that is nearly invisible to radar.

    A New Kind Of Warfare 2008

  • Wildlife: We have had a couple of visits from a Kestral in our back yard -- she was chewing on a slow-flying Finch the first time.

    Archive 2005-10-09 Michael Evans 2005

  • Wildlife: We have had a couple of visits from a Kestral in our back yard -- she was chewing on a slow-flying Finch the first time.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • The faster Me 109s, tethered to the slow-flying Sturmbocks, were massacred by the Mustangs.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • On the podium, he performed his duty as a slow-flying object swatted by a frustrated and flustered press corps.

    Firedoglake » White House Shake Up? Not So Much 2006

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