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Recent Examples of sailplane
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.
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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
Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
The sailplanes are all identical, made lightweight from foam, with radio controls and 6½-foot wing spans.
—Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 23 Nov. 2018
The graceful sailplanes soar silently over Arizona 74 and Lake Pleasant Road.
—Sonja Haller, azcentral, 30 Jan. 2015
Donned in coveralls, and looking the part of fliers, the members of the first girls’ sailplane club ever organized in the United States, showed much enthusiasm.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
Once airborne, the gliders — or sailplanes — were left to their own devices.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017
Sky Sailing San Diego takes customers into the heavens aboard sailplanes (aka gliders) high above Warner Springs, near Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
—Michael Benninger, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 3 July 2017
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
Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
The sailplanes are all identical, made lightweight from foam, with radio controls and 6½-foot wing spans.
—Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 23 Nov. 2018
The graceful sailplanes soar silently over Arizona 74 and Lake Pleasant Road.
—Sonja Haller, azcentral, 30 Jan. 2015
Donned in coveralls, and looking the part of fliers, the members of the first girls’ sailplane club ever organized in the United States, showed much enthusiasm.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
Once airborne, the gliders — or sailplanes — were left to their own devices.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017
Sky Sailing San Diego takes customers into the heavens aboard sailplanes (aka gliders) high above Warner Springs, near Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
—Michael Benninger, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 3 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sailplane
Noun
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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
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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
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The A-list actor and his director, Christopher McQuarrie, reveal during the movie’s climactic plane sequence that the joints in Cruise’s fingers separated from the sheer force the actor had to battle while dangling off the side of a biplane and holding onto the strap of a seat belt.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
19 Aug. 2025
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Fighting for possession of a rogue artificial intelligence known as the Entity, the two fly 1940s biplanes above canyons and fields in South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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Other efforts to develop new logistics capabilities for the Pacific have been canceled, like a project to develop a giant seaplane dubbed the Liberty Lifter.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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On this day in 1948, a seaplane crashed during a short flight to Hong Kong.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.—
Smithsonian,
Smithsonian,
26 May 2017
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“Sailplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sailplane. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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