Thesaurus results for AIR TAXI

air taxi

noun

Definition of air taxi

as in plane

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Recent Examples of air taxi Both companies plan to offer a commercial air taxi service using electric aircraft that function like Ubers over congested cities. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 To make things even more complicated, the only possible way to travel between the small town on the south shore of Lake Clark and surrounding, metropolitan like the state’s capital or Anchorage is via a roughly hours-long seaplane air taxi. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 Current battery-electric systems can only typically sustain short flights of about 100 to 200 miles, which is why they have been limited to air taxi operations by companies such as Joby and Archer. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 Archer Faces The Industrialization Test For Archer, the agreement represents more than the acquisition of an air taxi competitor. — Alex Krutz, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for air taxi

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Noun

Deputies said those aboard a nearby boat came to the assistance of possibly two people on the plane.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
The people who were killed on the plane are owed a duty of safety and a duty of care by the manufacturer of the aircraft, the pilot and all involved parties, but the same duty is owed to the people on the ground.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

In February 2023, 222 Nicaraguans boarded an airplane in Managua, uncertain what awaited them in the United States.

— Lynn Northcutt Vega, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
The short sortie—which lasted about a mile and reached only about 70 feet in altitude—made the 320-foot-wide behemoth the largest airplane ever to take flight.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of airplane

Noun

When a nude lipstick blends into surrounding skin, a liner can restore definition without forcing a darker lipstick.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Lip liner ranked among the strongest prestige makeup segments, though those numbers don’t isolate demand for concealer lips or anti-blush specifically.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of liner

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Video recorded by people inside their cars captured the terrifying moment the aircraft plunged from the sky, before striking near the roadway and exploding.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Preliminary information suggests the aircraft that crashed is a business jet.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

Solar panels and antennas are typically the first to tear off, and at around 78 kilometers [48 miles], roughly eight times the height of a passing airliner, the main body breaks apart.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Boom Supersonic, a US aerospace company best known for developing the Overture supersonic passenger airliner, has unveiled its first 14,000-pound turbine core, designed to support both high-speed aircraft and natural gas power generation.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 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

Noun

It was selected as the foundation of Britain’s five-ship Type 31 programme, which is being built at Babcock’s Rosyth shipyard in Scotland.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
The Navy has used the cessation of hostilities to restock ships with munitions and supplies, completing a significant replenishment of weapons for the USS George Washington last week.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 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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