Crossword clues for airplane
airplane
- Spruce Goose, for one
- Cabin setting
- 1980 parody film
- 1980 Nielsen movie
- Wrights' creation
- What a sky diver jumps out of
- Sky transport
- Sky craft
- Setting for the events in this puzzle
- Paper vehicle
- It's taken on a flight
- It makes touchdowns
- Fly on one to next gig
- American flyer
- A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value"
- 1980 parody movie with an inflatable autopilot named Otto
- 1980 parody film whose sequel was subtitled "The Sequel"
- 1980 Leslie Nielsen film title!
- 1980 comedy starring Robert Hays as an ex-pilot
- 1980 aviation disaster spoof that launched Leslie Nielsen's comedy career
- Paper-folding creation
- Place for cabins
- 727, e.g.
- Stew container?
- *1980 Robert Hays film
- Film whose sequel is subtitled "The Sequel"
- Runway model?
- An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- Pilot's shaver?
- Wright invention
- The Wrights' transportation
- Wright Brothers' invention
- Time spent organising perinatal transport in Texas
- Frequent flier
- Place for an ace
- One might do some banking
- 727, e.g
- Wrights got it right
- What a pilot flies
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aeroplane \aer"*o*plane`\ aeroplane \a"["e]r*o*plane`\, n. [a["e]ro- + plane.] (A["e]ronautics)
A light rigid plane used in a["e]rial navigation to oppose sudden upward or downward movement in the air, as in gliding machines; specif., such a plane slightly inclined and driven forward as a lifting device in some flying machines. Also called airfoil.
hence, a heavier-than-air flying machine using such a device to provide lift. In a modern aeroplane, the airfoils are called the wings, and most of the lift is derived from these surfaces. In contrast to helicopters, the wings are fixed to the passenger compartment (airframe) and do not move relative to the frame; thus such a machine is called a fixed-wing aircraft. These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the number of main supporting planes (wings) used in their construction. After 1940 few planes with more than one airfoil were constructed, and these are used by hobbyists or for special purposes. Being heavier than air they depend for their levitation on motion imparted by the thrust from either propellers driven by an engine, or, in a jet plane, by the reaction from a high-velocity stream of gases expelled rearward from a jet engine. They start from the ground by a run on small wheels or runners, and are guided by a steering apparatus consisting of horizontal and vertical movable planes, which usually form part of the wings or tail. There are many varieties of form and construction, which in some cases are known by the names of their inventors. In U.S., an aeroplane is usually called an airplane or plane.
airplane \air"plane\ n. a heavier-than-air aircraft. Same as {aeroplane[2]}.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1907, from air (n.1) + plane (n.1); though the original references are British, the word caught on in American English, where it largely superseded earlier aeroplane (1873 in this sense and still common in British English). Aircraft "airplane" also is from 1907. Lord Byron, speculatively, used air-vessel (1822).
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Airplane is an EP released in 1998 by Rusted Root.
The term airplane (equivalent to "aeroplane" in non-US English) typically refers to any powered fixed-wing aircraft.
Airplane(s) may also refer to:
An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation of goods and people, military, and research. Commercial aviation is a massive industry involving the flying of tens of thousands of passengers daily on airliners. Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled.
The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". They built on the work of several 19th Century aviation pioneers, including George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal and Octave Chanute.
World War I accelerated the advance of airplane technology, and by World War II airplanes participated in all major battles.
The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013.
Usage examples of "airplane".
Base, Afterbody and Tail Regions of Twin-Engine Airplane Model with Extra Low Horizontal Tail Locations at a Speed of Mach 0.
She guided the airplane in a wide, screaming circle over the airdrome, just to get a feel for the craft.
The antiaircraft gunners at Lae airdrome relaxed when they recognized the airplanes as Zeros.
Lakunai Airdrome and he had destroyed sixteen airplanes and killed more than eighty men as the American machine exploded in a long gout of flame and debris.
Still angry at what he was doing, bewildered by his motivation, Goodman yanked the chocks and entered the airplane, stomping up the narrow aisleway to the cockpit.
McDermott goes to the counter and comes back again with a white china cup that has a blue line and an airplane on it, and Alphonse takes a long drink of the hot brew and thinks that it is just about the best thing he has ever had to drink in his whole long life.
Las Vegas for a conference there - Boolean, it appeared, had no trouble with flying saddles but never liked airplanes - and it happened.
Give me an airplane and let me fly over London on a windless summer afternoon with no more than a gramme of botulinus toxin to scatter and by evening seven million Londoners would be dead.
There were no lasers, no computerised lights or dry ice, and bands like the Doors, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead had not yet released albums.
Germans, but it did fool Major - de Coverley, who packed his musette bag, commandeered an airplane and, under the impression that Florence too had been captured by the Allies, had himself flown to that city to rent two apartments for the officers and the enlisted men in the squadron to use on rest leaves.
Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major - de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.
If the damnyankees flew airplanes off the deck of a ship at the ships and the shore installations here, they would catch as much hell as the gunners could give them.
He had learned that he had an ear for languages and he now was fluent in enough tongues and dialects to make himself understood in almost any part of the globe that his nearly constant travels crisscrossed via airplane, ship, and all manner of other land and water conveyances.
The crew of an A-20 Havoc had flown into Garbutt Field in an airplane holed and sieved and badly in need of work, an airplane that was as close to unflyable as it was for a machine to be and still stay in the air.
West Virginia I had heard stories of large, gray, unmarked airplanes hedgehopping the treacherous hills.