my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.—Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025 The media industry is far from the days when coaches welcomed an airplane full of sportswriters for a promotional tour half a century ago.—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 July 2025 There are real-looking airplanes on runways with proper lighting and even cracks visible in the virtual pavement.—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 11 July 2025 Could this crash, and several other high-profile airplane accidents since then, have been avoided if artificial intelligence were running air traffic control (ATC) alongside human controllers?—Adrienne Bernhard, Scientific American, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for airplane
: a fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft that is driven by a propeller or by a forceful stream of gases backward and is supported by the reaction of the air against its wings
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