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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 airplanes
That is because most GPS jamming is not primarily targeted at airplanes.
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Big Think, 24 Feb. 2025
During peak travel season, this number can soar to upwards of 5,000 airplanes flying per hour.
—Essence, 24 Feb. 2025
Long spells of sitting in airports and on airplanes is a common story among patients who come to the ER with one or more clots in their legs — or worse, evidence that a clot has broken free and traveled through the bloodstream to lodge in the lungs, a serious condition called a pulmonary embolus.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
What were the airplanes involved in the crash?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Two people were killed Wednesday morning when two small airplanes crashed in midair at a regional airport in southern Arizona – the latest in a series of North American aviation disasters in recent weeks.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
If nothing else, airplanes had erased America’s ability to hide behind the Atlantic Ocean.
—Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2025
One of the airplanes has been identified as a Cessna 172S and the other as a Lancair 360 MK II.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Boeing executives have argued that there is a safe way to do this, by lowering the security standards for certain classes of workers who do not touch the airplanes’ most sensitive systems.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Big Think, 24 Feb. 2025
During peak travel season, this number can soar to upwards of 5,000 airplanes flying per hour.
—Essence, 24 Feb. 2025
Long spells of sitting in airports and on airplanes is a common story among patients who come to the ER with one or more clots in their legs — or worse, evidence that a clot has broken free and traveled through the bloodstream to lodge in the lungs, a serious condition called a pulmonary embolus.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
What were the airplanes involved in the crash?
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Two people were killed Wednesday morning when two small airplanes crashed in midair at a regional airport in southern Arizona – the latest in a series of North American aviation disasters in recent weeks.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
If nothing else, airplanes had erased America’s ability to hide behind the Atlantic Ocean.
—Donald Heflin, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2025
One of the airplanes has been identified as a Cessna 172S and the other as a Lancair 360 MK II.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Boeing executives have argued that there is a safe way to do this, by lowering the security standards for certain classes of workers who do not touch the airplanes’ most sensitive systems.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Airplanes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplanes. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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