: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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Then there was this couple in North Carolina flying in their biplane, like that Snoopy open plane, and the pilot and the passenger both have the mug out up in the air.
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Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 30 Jan. 2025
Campbell has more than 20,000 flight hours, from biplanes to the giant Boeing 777.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
Check out the first trailer below for shots of Cruise clinging onto a speeding biplane, sneaking through a busy square in London, and having a fistfight on board a sinking submarine.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
During filming in England, he was seen dangling from an upside-down biplane — because of course.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 30 Jan. 2025
Campbell has more than 20,000 flight hours, from biplanes to the giant Boeing 777.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
Check out the first trailer below for shots of Cruise clinging onto a speeding biplane, sneaking through a busy square in London, and having a fistfight on board a sinking submarine.
—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
During filming in England, he was seen dangling from an upside-down biplane — because of course.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 10 Feb. 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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