biplane

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Recent Examples of biplane Flying Through ‘The City’ Along with the DC-3, some of the other planes displayed inside the hangar include the Stearman biplane, used to train WWII pilots; an F-84 Thunderjet; and a Lockheed T-33, a jet trainer built in the 1950s in which visitors can sit inside the cockpit. Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025 Though, for some of us, seeing Ethan Hunt dangle from a biplane, however rickety the narrative excuses for that to happen, is more fun. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 Reckoning with its death-defying submarine and biplane stunts, cost between $300M-$400M in a start and stop from Covid and strikes. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 21 May 2025 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. Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for biplane
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Noun
  • Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.
    Smithsonian, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
Noun
  • The world’s first airplane hijacking took place on the Miss Macao seaplane in 1948.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Knight is credited with rescuing 20 ocean vessels and at least eight seaplanes and riding out six hurricanes at the top of the lighthouse.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.
    Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
Noun
  • In the corner of the Mosquito hangar is the body of a Horsa glider, an unpowered WWII transport aircraft that was towed into the air and used to deliver troops and weapons behind enemy lines.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The centerpiece was a number of huge, winged gliders that would land astronauts on Mars by navigating what was then thought to be an atmosphere perhaps half the density of Earth's.
    Rod Pyle, Space.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Whether racing dune buggies along the Massachusetts coast, piloting a yellow sailplane, or sharing a silent chess match with Faye Dunaway, his shades were always front and center.
    Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • According to the study, fewer than six Steve Backshall’s Andean toads have been discovered over the last 16 years, despite multiple surveys focused solely on documenting amphibians in the Cerro Candelaria region where it was discovered.
    Lauren Liebhaber July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2025
  • Many fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds may produce a compound that protects their cells against the sun’s damaging effects.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 July 2025

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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biplane. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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