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a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Recent Examples of airplane
SpaceX, along with other space companies, shares airspace with commercial airplanes.
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
And the crew was flying an older-model aircraft that lacked certain safety technologies in its cockpit that are commonplace in those of commercial airplanes in the United States.
—Mark Walker, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2025
Last week saw back-to-back fatal airplane crashes, one being a mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter by Washington, D.C.'s DCA.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
An Idaho National Guard helicopter and Civil Air Patrol airplane traveled Monday afternoon to assist with aerial searching, Rhodes said, and a member of the public was patrolling in a personal helicopter.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 3 Feb. 2025
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
And the crew was flying an older-model aircraft that lacked certain safety technologies in its cockpit that are commonplace in those of commercial airplanes in the United States.
—Mark Walker, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2025
Last week saw back-to-back fatal airplane crashes, one being a mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter by Washington, D.C.'s DCA.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
An Idaho National Guard helicopter and Civil Air Patrol airplane traveled Monday afternoon to assist with aerial searching, Rhodes said, and a member of the public was patrolling in a personal helicopter.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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Unanswered questions after Delta plane crash Investigators are working to identify why a Delta Air Lines regional jet coming from Minnesota flipped on its roof during landing at Canada's Toronto Pearson International Airport.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash UCF cracks down on resale of football season tickets on secondary market West Colonial is one of Orlando’s ugliest streets.—
Silas Morgan,
Orlando Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Workers planned to spend several days fishing the rest of the commercial airliner from the water before trying to retrieve the military helicopter.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Officials have been at the debris site in the river since shortly after the collision between a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating under PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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