towplane

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Noun
  • 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
  • Set pieces involving a sunken submarine and buzzing biplanes amply fulfill the franchise’s main selling point.
    Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Top 5 Can’t Miss Get a bird's-eye view of the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield from a seaplane.
    Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • Seaborne continues to fly a single seaplane between the U.S. Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • As a biologist who specializes in herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians), here’s my list of must-visit state parks – selected for the natural beauty of the site as well as the wildlife and, particularly, the herpetofauna that might be found there.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • The center is permitted for all native wildlife, ranging from opossums, skunks, raccoons to songbirds, waterfowl, reptiles, and amphibians, Hamlin said.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 July 2025
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“Towplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towplane. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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