Devices have been perfected which will permit a lightplane to drop packages of spare parts or medical supplies without damage in locations where even a lightplane cannot land, such as lumber camps.

He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.

soft-spoken

Maybe not so much in Chinese webnovels, which are delightfully unrestrained and often run to hundreds of chapters, but in many other realms of writing, where an editor would have told the author to cut it out, or the author would have cut it out in anticipation of being told as much.