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airplane

[air-pleyn] / ˈɛərˌpleɪn /
NOUN
vehicle that transports cargo or passengers through the air
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The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s not about where the airplanes come from, it’s about what those airplanes can do,” said Deptula.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hydrogen-powered airplanes, touted by some as a way to slash carbon emissions from flying, are unlikely to prove a viable technology anytime soon, the head of French engine maker Safran said Wednesday.

From Barron's

The new orders from Delta bring the carrier’s total order book to 130 Boeing airplanes.

From MarketWatch

In its place emerged a science-fiction world filled with miraculous labor- and timesaving devices—cars and airplanes, computers and robots—that often came at a high physical and environmental cost.

From Barron's