1. Built from carbon fibres and balsa wood, Snowbird has a wing span of 32m (105 feet) - comparable to a Boeing 737.

2. The body is built from balsa wood, and the wings powered by a wire crank driven by a rubber band.

3. The duo cut rectangular holes in balsa wood and covered them with glass microscope slides.

4. A chair made of balsa wood is very light. If you're hit with a balsa wood chair you won't be injured.

5. Owl City: My house is made out of balsa wood.

6. They have the heft of balsa wood. They are as porous as a sponge, brittle as a coffee mug dropped on the floor ...

7. Agriculture: bananas, coffee , cacao, rice; cattle; balsa wood; fish.

8. Whole sections of the City were trampled flat, buildings going down like balsa wood.

9. The boy sat on the floor beside her, carving a piece of balsa wood.

10. It was he who folded aluminium, made ceramic sculpture in Japan, created delicate pieces in balsa wood.

11. Model aircraft are flying or non-flying models of existing or imaginary aircraft, often scaled down versions of full size planes, using materials such as balsa wood, foam and fiberglass.

12. This Beaune announces its evolved nature with a strawberry brick-red colour. The nose is full of potent, chalky, balsa wood, red currant, juniper and raspberry hair nose.

13. Long ago, the ancestors had no cultivated plants or clay pots, and had to live on a diet of mashed balsa wood cooked in their armpits.