We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country seems to have remained a country of railroads.

-Cheever,JohnWilliam
  On the US. Bullet Park, pt.1, ch.1.

   The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there 270 arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Hard Times, bk.1, ch.1.

If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

At first sight, landing by plane had seemed an infinitely more normal and agreeable method of entering the country than what Mr Churchill called 'jumping out of a parachute'.

-Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Hew
  Eastern  Approaches.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

-Nathan, GeorgeJean
Attributed.

  Painting is nothing but a representation of surfaces and solidsforeshortenedorenlarged, and putontheplaneof the picture in accordance with the fashion in which the real objects seen by the eye appear on this plane.

-Piero della Francesca
c.1480^1490  De Prospectiva Pingendi.