: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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As 19-year-old Lee performed her preflight check in July 1932, Greenwood’s other training biplane, called the Student Prince, taxied down the runway, piloted by one of the Chinese Flying Club of Portland boys earning solo hours.
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Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Junior Ranger Day events include the chance to build biplane models at Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama and learn about the history of dogs in Hidatsa villages and earn a BARK Ranger badge for their own pups at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
Some assert that a grip can hardly be considered an inapt jail without also being a biplane.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
By the time Muntean was a toddler, his mom, a plant manager for Procter & Gamble, had also begun taking flying lessons and had cashed in her pension to purchase an aerobatic biplane.
—Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
Zev Feldman has been called the Indiana Jones of jazz, but he’s never run away from an exploding Nazi biplane or snatched a golden idol from an altar in the Amazon.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
The answer Alef developed was to use the sides of the car as the wings, effectively turning it into a biplane, its body rotating 90 degrees after takeoff to move from upward to forward flight.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023
On October 4, 1918, the biplane bomb took off, and then flew off track.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane.
—Washington Post, 8 June 2023
Susan Tate Ankeny, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2024
Junior Ranger Day events include the chance to build biplane models at Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Alabama and learn about the history of dogs in Hidatsa villages and earn a BARK Ranger badge for their own pups at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
Some assert that a grip can hardly be considered an inapt jail without also being a biplane.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
By the time Muntean was a toddler, his mom, a plant manager for Procter & Gamble, had also begun taking flying lessons and had cashed in her pension to purchase an aerobatic biplane.
—Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024
Zev Feldman has been called the Indiana Jones of jazz, but he’s never run away from an exploding Nazi biplane or snatched a golden idol from an altar in the Amazon.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
The answer Alef developed was to use the sides of the car as the wings, effectively turning it into a biplane, its body rotating 90 degrees after takeoff to move from upward to forward flight.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2023
On October 4, 1918, the biplane bomb took off, and then flew off track.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
The sky is punctuated by a hot-air balloon, a dirigible and a zooming biplane.
—Washington Post, 8 June 2023
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
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biplane
noun
bi·plane
ˈbī-ˌplān 
: an airplane with two sets of wings usually placed one above the other
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