In one, he was trying to catch Fourty Two in an old biplane, but missed completely and had to watch her splatter to the ground below.

All the fiercer, however, were the attempts of the Russian air force to attack the backward movements with old biplanes and light bombers.

This adventure, barnstorming through the 1970s with an old biplane, I thought.

You don't mean that funny old biplane, with all the wires?

I thought gliders were canvas over wood or something, like the old biplanes.

At the onset, aircraft available to both sides in the desert tended to be older biplanes.

"You just don't know anything about real flying," her brother said, "until you've been in one of those old biplanes."

It was part of their dubious charm, like the old biplane that always seemed to be parked in front of the single hangar.

But the old biplane flown by Layton Brennan used a much more basic type of fuel.

At the time the Navy air services were small and equipped mostly with older biplanes.