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air taxi

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Definition of air taxi

as in plane

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Recent Examples of air taxi In February, Joby announced a partnership with Uber to start service in the United Arab Emirates this year, bringing on-demand air taxi rides to the country. — Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Europe's aviation safety agency EASA published a comprehensive eVTOL regulatory framework in 2022 and puts the realistic arrival of widespread air taxi services at around 2030. — Omar Kardoudi june 26, New Atlas, 26 June 2026 Ladov envisions building additional vertiports around the region so that folks living in, say, Montclair, New Jersey, could hitch a ride in an air taxi for their daily commute. — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026 Joby completed a piloted electric air taxi flight across San Francisco Bay and around the Golden Gate Bridge in March to kick off the tour, showcasing its aircraft, which is designed to carry a pilot and four passengers at speeds up to 200 mph, with a range of about 150 miles. — Randy Tucker, USA Today, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for air taxi

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Several flights, including one passenger plane, were diverted to other airports after the sighting of the flying object near the airport shortly before midnight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a small plane on a training flight that made an emergency landing on a Florida interstate Monday morning, narrowly missing highway signs and vehicles.

— Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Stronger, more effective composites for electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and airplanes are being produced by lightweight, radiation-tolerant nanomaterials and metamaterials honed for spacecraft, which also reduce weight and increase range.

— Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Private airplanes dropped copies of Harding’s proclamation, but neither side complied.

— Elijah TanAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

Definition of airplane

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But soon after a contractor completed work on a protective blue liner, and the pool was refilled, there were reports of coating floating at the surface.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2026
For every show, the band is giving away four cruises aboard the cruise liner’s new ship Beachcomber, which makes its debut in January 2027.

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of liner

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Kuwait said on Saturday that Iranian forces launched a wave of drones within its airspace, with its military destroying multiple aircraft after Iran targeted critical infrastructure in the country's north.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Although Chinese authorities have not officially confirmed the aircraft or its development status, the latest visuals have renewed interest in Beijing’s progress toward a sixth-generation combat aircraft.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 27 July 2026
Small wonder the Comet, the world's first jet airliner, made its debut there, as did the Concorde in 1970.

— David Szondy July 23, New Atlas, 23 July 2026

Definition of airliner

Noun

Today, while a new generation of supersonic transports is under development, civilian aviation is consigned to speeds below that of sound, though some business jets can go over Mach 9-and-a-bit.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.

— Made by History, Time, 1 Apr. 2025

Definition of supersonic transport

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All five ships crossed through an Iranian route, the Kpler data showed.

— Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
First is to prevent their further migration by enforcing an international treaty obliging national authorities to treat ballast waters inside incoming ships that may carry such species.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Virgin decided to move on to the Delta-class program after completing 12 flights to the edge of space—above 80 km or 50 miles, as defined by the US government—with the previous-generation VSS Unity rocket plane.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
These lower operating expenses are tied to Virgin Galactic's decision to suspend operations of its VSS Unity suborbital rocket plane last year to focus investment into a new series of suborbital spacecraft known as Delta-class ships.

— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025

Definition of rocket plane

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