my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Made from a quick-drying, breathable nylon fabric, these pants wick away sweat on a stuffy airplane or long hike.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2026 The premiumization of air travel has become impossible to miss, even for travelers who only get a glimpse through an airport lounge door or while walking down an airplane aisle.—
Rio Yamat,
Fortune,
7 July 2026 In the late summer of 2024, a bird strikes a Cessna in midflight; the airplane plunges into a deep Wyoming lake.—
Hamilton Cain,
Time,
7 July 2026 The premiumization of air travel has become impossible to miss, even for travelers who only get a glimpse through an airport lounge door or while walking down an airplane aisle.—ABC News,
6 July 2026 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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