my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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China's Hong Kong International Airport also came to mind for readers with its unrivaled shopping and one-of-a-kind Sky Bridge for watching airplanes above an active runway.—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026 The longtime San Diegan worked as an acrobat, in airplane manufacturing, as a schoolteacher and in the real estate industry.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026 There’s tangible progress being made on innovations that could make airplanes more accessible in the coming years.—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026 Flying over Pennsylvania, the small airplane wirelessly beamed power down to receivers on the ground.—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 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
