my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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On passenger airplanes alone, the Federal Aviation Administration has tracked nearly 200 thermal-runaway incidents since 2024.—
Alison J. Stein,
HubSpot,
1 Sep. 2026 When Dow arrived at the Alaska Smokejumper Base, in 1975, sixty-five men worked out of an airplane hangar that had been abandoned after the Second World War.—
M. R. O’Connor,
New Yorker,
31 Aug. 2026 As winners take the stage, the audience showers them with paper airplanes.—Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Aug. 2026 Seeding the clouds with those particles can be done from the ground or by air using airplanes, or in the case of the Rainmaker project, drones.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for airplane
: a fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft that is driven by a propeller or by a forceful stream of gases backward and is supported by the reaction of the air against its wings
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