: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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Mustered out from the Great War, veteran pilots — still hooked on the adrenaline rush of aerial combat — reenacted their exploits for the screen in rickety biplanes that seemed to have been stitched together from string and paper mache.
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
Set pieces involving a sunken submarine and buzzing biplanes amply fulfill the franchise’s main selling point.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Dogfighting Drones As many observers have already noted, drone evolution in Ukraine has followed the same lines as aerial warfare in WWI, when simple biplanes were first used for scouting, then adapted for bombing, then for shooting down other aircraft and finally for fighting each other.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Thousands of onlookers cheered wildly as daredevil pilot Bessie Coleman arced her Curtiss Jenny biplane into a spiral above a Houston field.
—Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
Set pieces involving a sunken submarine and buzzing biplanes amply fulfill the franchise’s main selling point.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Dogfighting Drones As many observers have already noted, drone evolution in Ukraine has followed the same lines as aerial warfare in WWI, when simple biplanes were first used for scouting, then adapted for bombing, then for shooting down other aircraft and finally for fighting each other.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Thousands of onlookers cheered wildly as daredevil pilot Bessie Coleman arced her Curtiss Jenny biplane into a spiral above a Houston field.
—Victor Luckerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 9 Jul. 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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