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Noun
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Campbell has more than 20,000 flight hours, from biplanes to the giant Boeing 777.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025 -
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.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
WWD,
30 Jan. 2025
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Only accessible by boat or seaplane, the park is roughly 99 percent open water (really!), vibrantly blue, and filled with stunning coral reefs.—
Kara Franker,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2025
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The island is highly remote, nearly in Canadian and Minnesota waters, and is only accessible by ferry, seaplane or private water crafts.—
Darcie Moran,
Detroit Free Press,
14 Aug. 2024
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.—
Jamie Turner,
cleveland.com,
16 July 2019
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Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Oct. 2024
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Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.—
Smithsonian,
Smithsonian,
26 May 2017
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The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.—
David Hambling,
Popular Mechanics,
16 Feb. 2023
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Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2022
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Last year all four auditoriums at VOX Mall of the Emirates were renovated and the chain's standard product was upgraded to premier offering guests the choice of gliders or reclining seats as well as state-of-the-art laser projectors.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Foster, fascinated by machines—and perhaps most appreciative of other people when they’re seen from an L. S. Lowry-like distance—had taken to flying gliders, and then planes.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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By 2020, the design brief had morphed through a 12-rotor three-person contender called the Seraph to a tilt-rotor people carrier concept dubbed the VA-1X – which the company's Chief Engineer detailed in an interview shortly after the reveal.—
Paul Ridden,
New Atlas,
19 July 2024
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Abe has reaffirmed Noda’s plan to buy 42 F-35 fighters and has announced his intention to purchase 17 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and 52 amphibious assault vehicles.—
Michael Auslin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2016
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In the latest days of the Triassic, early dinosaurs lived alongside giant amphibians, gharial-like phytosaurs and an array of crocodile relatives that took forms ranging from armadillo-like to apex predators.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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Their almost decade-long project focused on documenting the island’s reptiles and amphibians.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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