I remembered reading, or being told, that modern light planes are pretty good at flying themselves out of trouble if you give them a chance.
And to save weight, the Flyer lacks most of the safety devices common to modern planes.
Equipment fails all the time but modern planes and ships have an element of safety duplication built in.
Flying above them is a large, modern commercial plane.
Airlines have been saying that the filters aboard modern planes do a good job of removing viruses from the air.
A modern plane can have as many people in it as a fully filled theater.
Somewhere below them a place had been chosen by fate to receive one of America's most modern planes.
The most modern military plane at the time was the Avro 626, which is shown on a 40-cent stamp.
Compared to modern planes, mine doesn't have many instruments.
If only he had a modern plane, like an F-22.