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Noun
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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.—
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
Noun
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Most people get from town to town by seaplane or boat.—
Sharael Kolberg,
Travel + Leisure,
15 June 2025
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As this is the mid-Atlantic’s yachting capital, and an anchorage for caravels, clippers and seaplanes, the spirit of nautical bonhomie is pervasive.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes.com,
6 June 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
Noun
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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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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
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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
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While the other species are all considered skilled aerial travelers, biomechanical research suggests that the paradise flying snake is the fastest glider among them.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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Conservationists hope the greater glider livestream will continue revealing new information about these at-risk animals and encourage their protection.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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Operation Spider’s Web saw 117 attack drones, mostly small, relatively cheap tilt-rotor forward-person view drones, suddenly emerge from hidden crates inside trucks strategically parked near Russian airbases thousands of miles from Ukraine.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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This is not the first time that an eVTOL has made such a transition flight with a pilot aboard, but the others by the likes of Beta Technologies and Wick Aero used aircraft with separate horizontal and vertical flight systems, while the S4 used a tilt-rotor system for both maneuvers.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Apr. 2025
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Thanks to the Terrain Management system and multiple four-wheel drive controls, however, the Ranger PHEV effortlessly swam like an amphibian.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The cicadas also provide abundant high-protein food for many species of birds, small mammals, and some reptiles and amphibians.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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