Definitions for AIRPLANES
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1. airplanes

   An airplane (American English), or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. 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. Worldwide, commercial aviation transports more than four billion passengers annually on airliners and transports more than 200 billion tonne-kilometers of cargo annually, which is less than 1% of the world's cargo movement. Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled such as drones. 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 works of George Cayley dating from 1799, when he set forth the concept of the modern airplane (and later built and flew models and successful passenger-carrying gliders) and the work of German pioneer of human aviation Otto Lilienthal, who, between 1867 and 1896, also studied heavier-than-air flight. Lilienthal's flight attempts in 1891 are seen as the beginning of human flight. Following its limited use in World War I, aircraft technology continued to develop. Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of World War II. 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 commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013.

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1. airplanesnoun

   Plural noun of the word airplane.

   My brother loves to take his children to the airport near the perimeter fence and they watch the airplanes takeoff and land.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on May 21, 2016  

How to pronounce AIRPLANES?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say AIRPLANES in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of AIRPLANES in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of AIRPLANES in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of AIRPLANES in a Sentence

1. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.:

   If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

2. Viola Fletcher:

   I will never forget the violence of the White mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I can not.

3. Edward Hammond:

   The airplanes were coming right through, torpedo planes came in first. Slow-flying planes. They could have been fighter planes …. DISPLAY OF RARE ITEMS MARKS 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF Pearl Harbor.

4. Keri Peterson:

   People are in closer proximity on trains and airplanes so they are more likely to be contaminated if someone coughs or sneezes, plus, the sanitization of trains and airplanes is not very thorough, so surfaces are more likely to harbor germs.

5. Madhulika Guhathakurta:

   We are flying very sophisticated instruments on airplanes to look at the sun in multiple wavelengths we don't have access to from space.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplanes