triplane

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Recent Examples of triplane Design, safety, and range Matrix uses a lift-and-cruise compound wing design with a triplane layout and a six-arm structure. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Feb. 2026 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, 18 Oct. 2024 Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane. Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triplane
Noun
  • Scaling up from a small model to a full-sized quadrotor biplane is much riskier, so the team is building an exact digital replica first.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The image shows him in aviator’s garb with a biplane flying overhead.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
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
  • Miami plans to relocate City Hall from the iconic 1931 Pan American Airways seaplane terminal in Coconut Grove to a new building at Miami Freedom Park near Miami International Airport.
    Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Children can be seen monkeying around the billiards table, and the surrounding area offers plenty of activities to suit the whole gang—from hiking and boat tours to hair-raising seaplane adventures.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The four-door GT was bigger and more comfortable in every way, a glider from the future that proved definitively that the company that built a defining car of the 1960s is now something else entirely.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The project began as a simple sound-and-light upgrade last August but became a massive historic preservation effort after workers discovered 1950s-era murals depicting the history of flight, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Renaissance glider to Clipper planes flown by Pan Am.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026

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“Triplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triplane. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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