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/ˈɛɹˌpɫeɪn/
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NOUN
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an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
How To Use airplane In A Sentence
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- When an airplane is flying, it has a good deal of forward speed and airflow over all of its surfaces.
- The investigation revealed that it was likely that the airplane gradually accumulated a thin, rough glaze/mixed ice coverage on the leading edge deicing boot surfaces, possibly with ice ridge formation on the leading edge upper surface, as the airplane descended from 7000 feet mean sea level (msl) to 4000 feet msl in icing conditions, which may have been imperceptible to the pilots. WN.com - Business News
- the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
- Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
- There was a sudden whir as the airplane started its engines.
- Slow the airplane to reduce impact forces; also, you'll likely encounter wind shear and strong downdrafts.
- The reason, it turns out, is that American airspace was shut down, and no airplanes means no contrails.
- The pilot crashed the airplane in landing.
- A recent such program drew about two dozen pilots of high-performance and turbocharged Mooneys for a weekend in Washington, D.C. Some of the airplanes this group flies - all unpressurized - have service ceilings as high as 28,000 feet.