WordNet
n. a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy
Usage examples of "reconnaissance plane".
Air F SR-71 Blackbird military reconnaissance plane (die fastest aircraft in the world until America had come along), with its pointed hawknose bow sweeping gracefully out toward its broad, flat fuselage and impossibly thin edges.
In addition, President Johnson personally approved the use of the superfast, ultra-high-flying SR-71 reconnaissance plane to overfly North Korea in an attempt to precisely locate the ship and its crew.
But we must also maintain listening watches on HAVE QUICK, VHP, UHF, and even HF for data relays by radar planes, mostly via the E-8 Joint Surveillance Targeting and Reconnaissance plane.
Well spread out, we made good progress at first, until a British reconnaissance plane flew over us, circled, and flew off again.
Pilots a Navy four-engined reconnaissance plane that is the first airplane to arrive over the Buras.
His hands worked the stick and the throttles deftly, settling the fighter close alongside the huge reconnaissance plane's starboard wing.
Pilots aNavy four-engined reconnaissance plane that is the first airplane toarrive over the Buras.
Three helicopters and a Stinson reconnaissance plane equipped with cameras were being prepared to go to the Maricopa area.
He got hold of a small Stork reconnaissance plane, and flew me in there and out again.
They were using black steerable rectangular ramjet parachutes but had skydived for most of the distance, reaching forward speeds of up to 150 miles per hour and navigating with the aid of night-vision goggles by comparing the terrain with the map they had studied and the video made by a Ranger reconnaissance plane the night before.
Or, if they wanted to sink us from the air, they wouldn't use a Condor which is really a reconnaissance plane: Heinkels, Heinkel Ill's or Stukas with long-range tanks could do the job much more efficiently - and Trondheim is only about two hundred miles from here.