trimotor

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Recent Examples of trimotor The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024 Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public. Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trimotor
Noun
  • Every Sunday from May through October, the Flying Circus features daring aerobatic stunts in vintage biplanes, transporting spectators back to the golden age of aviation.
    Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
  • You will neither get gunned down by Snoopy in a biplane, nor will a helicopter land on the freeway to give your parents a ticket.
    Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.
    Smithsonian, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
Noun
  • Most guests float in on vintage Turtle Air seaplanes to the legendary refuge in the heart of the Yasawas.
    David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Dry Tortugas National Park, located 70 miles west of Key West in Florida and only reachable by boat or seaplane, was the third least visited national park in the contiguous U.S. NPS parks in Michigan The National Park Service (NPS) manages many different types of parks.
    Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Enjoy craft checkouts, cockpit exploration, glider and helicopter construction.
    Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Many of these sale items do both, like a Graco convertible crib and the Baby Relax glider and rocker.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
Noun
  • Uncle Jack Cassidy lives on the island which is filled with new dinosaur species, giant insects and prehistoric amphibians.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Today, more than 40 percent of amphibians are at risk of going extinct.
    Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Parker and Sweeney both know how this story ended: the bomber actually had engine trouble, and the mystery aircraft turned out to be a wedge of swans.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • According to the Japanese media, this was the fourth time the U.S. military has deployed its bombers to the Korean Peninsula.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • By 2020, the design brief had morphed through a 12-rotor three-person contender called the Seraph to a tilt-rotor people carrier concept dubbed the VA-1X – which the company's Chief Engineer detailed in an interview shortly after the reveal.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
  • Abe has reaffirmed Noda’s plan to buy 42 F-35 fighters and has announced his intention to purchase 17 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and 52 amphibious assault vehicles.
    Michael Auslin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016

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“Trimotor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trimotor. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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