my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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In this case, preparing for war meant shipping designs, sample parts, and airplane prototypes to CanCar’s factory at Fort William late in 1938.—Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025 In 1952, a case known as United States v. Reynolds went before the Supreme Court, in which the widows of three civilian crew members who were killed in a U.S. military airplane crash sued the government to obtain the accident investigation report.—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025 Though debunked many times over the years, chemtrail believers say the white condensation lines left behind by airplanes in the sky are filled with toxic chemicals.—Ramishah Maruf, Brandon Miller, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025 There’s one set of rules for commercial airplanes that have between one and nine passenger seats.—Eric Ryan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 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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