my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Hanging from the ceiling is a model of the Wright brothers’ first production airplane — the aviation pioneers were from nearby Dayton and an inspiration for Armstrong.—ABC News,
5 Aug. 2026 Videos from the fire zone showed towering smoke plumes rising above trees and neighborhoods as airplane tankers dropped fire retardant on the fast-moving flames.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2026 Unlike jet airplanes, which fly above 35,000 feet and are separated from one another by vast distances, air taxis will likely fly no higher than 4,000 feet on short routes where space between the aircraft could get tight.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
3 Aug. 2026 Boeing opened a fourth production line in Everett, Washington, in July for its 737 Max airplanes.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
3 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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