Airplane
Airplane noun - A vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift.
Usage example: my uncle learned how to fly an airplane during World War II
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- Bored airplane mechanics would sometimes MacGyver up a wind-powered mixer, latched it with a tank of ice cream mix underneath a fighter plane, and have it fly around for a few minutes.
Source: Mundane Utility / Real Life -
World War I: Crash and Coco's airplane combat levels, in which they fly a biplane and a single-winged fighter plane respectively, seem to be set in this period.
- One of the more memorable crashes uses stock footage from the wrong war entirely — the airplane is damaged as a twin-engine bomber from early in the war, approaches the carrier as a twin-engine fighter from late in the war, and crashes as a single-engine fighter from the Korean War.
Source: Coming In Hot
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