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  • It's about a skywriting werewolf adventurer called Beast Biplane.

    Is the ship sinking? A short chat with Ted May | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Biplane used to strafe the hero was a late WWI plane, with the capability of shooting through the propeller not available until the war was well underway.

    39 Steps Retread (Fail) zornhau 2008

  • We listed then the Biplane Hat Glide (women were wearing enormous hats that season) and Motor Ten Pins -- get in a motor car and run down dummies which count respectively, a child, ten points; a blind man, five; a newsboy, one.

    If You Don't Write Fiction Charles Phelps Cushing

  • Biplane (bi'plane) -- An aeroplane with two superposed main surfaces.

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

  • Biplane -- An aeroplane of which the main lifting surface consists of a surface or pair of wings mounted above another surface or pair of wings.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

  • So the Chalk drew a nice long slim body to hold the Engine and the tanks, etc., with room for the Pilot's and Passenger's seats, and placed it exactly in the middle of the Biplane.

    The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

  • = Biplane = -- An aeroplane of which the main lifting surface consists of a surface or pair of wings mounted above another surface or pair of wings.

    The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

  • So the Chalk drew a nice long slim body to hold the Engine and the tanks, etc., with room for the Pilot's and Passenger's seats, and placed it exactly in the middle of the Biplane.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

  • So the Chalk drew a nice long slim body to hold the Engine and the tanks, etc., with room for the Pilot's and Passenger's seats, and placed it exactly in the middle of the Biplane.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

  • Biplane -- An aeroplane of which the main lifting surface consists of a surface or pair of wings mounted above another surface or pair of wings.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

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