trimotor

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Recent Examples of trimotor 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trimotor
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most people get from town to town by seaplane or boat.
    Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • One of those bombers dropped two massive ordnance penetrators on a nuclear facility in Fordo at 2:10 a.m. local time, Caine said—the first of 14 bombs dropped across Iran.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • It was being dropped from high above the Earth by a B-2 Spirit bomber.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 25 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

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“Trimotor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trimotor. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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