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airplanes


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Preferred Term

airplanes

Details

Nontechnical term for heavier than air fixed-wing aircraft designed to utilize the pressures created by their motion through the air to lift and transport people and cargo; if possible use a more precise term.

Variations

airplane

aeroplanes

aeroplane

planes

plane

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