waterplane

• Colonel Cody flew to his death in one waterplane, and Mr. Hawker made a superb failure to fly around Great Britain in another waterplane. —  If Winter Comes
• On this side of the Kiel Canal, unless I overrate the powers of the waterplane, there is no safe harbor for it. —  New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
• Getting there was a little difficult, it is true; the waterplane was out in the surf, and I was carried to it on a boatman's back, and then had to clamber carefully through the wires, but that is a matter of detail. —  An Englishman Looks at the World
• Incidentally a commerce destroyer may take advantage of the retirement of our fleet to raid our trade routes We shall then realise that the actual naval weapons are these smaller weapons, and especially the destroyer, the submarine, and the waterplane--the waterplane most of all, because of its possibilities of a comparative bigness--in the hands of competent and daring men. —  An Englishman Looks at the World
• Let us begin with the educated and propertied classes and exact a couple of years' service in a destroyer or a waterplane, or an airship, or a, research laboratory, or a training camp, from the sons of everybody who, let us say, pays income tax without deductions. —  An Englishman Looks at the World

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