: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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But several noteworthy acts are slated to grace the sky before those fighter planes, including a squadron of Air Force parachutists, and a 1940 biplane, once used to train pilots during World War II and restored in the 1990s by Stadel Aircraft in Yuba City.
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
To beat The Entity, Ethan and his peeps end up in South Africa, where Ethan (who earlier obtained the AI’s source code from the Russian sub) has a final showdown with Gabriel in biplanes.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 May 2025
All of these are mere amuse-bouches in preparation for the main course, in which Hunt manages to stowaway on a biplane, commandeer it, then jump onto a second biplane and hang on to the wing while swooping up to 8000 feet.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
Those biplanes may be soaring in the sky in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, but critics feel like the movie is too heavy to really take off.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 May 2025
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Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
To beat The Entity, Ethan and his peeps end up in South Africa, where Ethan (who earlier obtained the AI’s source code from the Russian sub) has a final showdown with Gabriel in biplanes.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 May 2025
All of these are mere amuse-bouches in preparation for the main course, in which Hunt manages to stowaway on a biplane, commandeer it, then jump onto a second biplane and hang on to the wing while swooping up to 8000 feet.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
Those biplanes may be soaring in the sky in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, but critics feel like the movie is too heavy to really take off.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for biplane
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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biplane
noun
bi·plane
ˈbī-ˌplān 
: an airplane with two sets of wings usually placed one above the other
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