: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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Reckoning has received a lot of attention for its stunts – Tom Cruise hanging off a biplane, for instance, and a burning parachute sequence.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
Real Danger Compared to Cruise doing stunts on the wing of 140-mph of 100-year-old biplane, the relatively and intentionally slower submarine scene on the surface may seem less dangerous, but that wasn’t the case.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 June 2025
But several noteworthy acts are slated to grace the sky before those fighter planes, including a squadron of Air Force parachutists, and a 1940 biplane, once used to train pilots during World War II and restored in the 1990s by Stadel Aircraft in Yuba City.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 June 2025
Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
Real Danger Compared to Cruise doing stunts on the wing of 140-mph of 100-year-old biplane, the relatively and intentionally slower submarine scene on the surface may seem less dangerous, but that wasn’t the case.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 June 2025
But several noteworthy acts are slated to grace the sky before those fighter planes, including a squadron of Air Force parachutists, and a 1940 biplane, once used to train pilots during World War II and restored in the 1990s by Stadel Aircraft in Yuba City.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 1 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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