(n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.
Example Sentences:
(1) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
(2) If successful, rockets could be reused like aeroplanes, cutting the price of a space mission to just $200,000, for fuel.
(3) He replied bluntly: "A Chilean president does not take an aeroplane to escape.
(4) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
(5) Celebrity endorsement is the super- weapon of modern humanitarianism – three-quarters of Britain's 30 largest charities (excluding housing and care trusts) have full-time celebrity liaison managers to ease the celebrities on and off aeroplanes in and out of hell.
(6) There are no aeroplanes coming through the airport since the conflict started and the fuel shortages mean that we are often in darkness for days on end.” Dr Rasha Al-Ardi, Unicef aid worker, Hodeidah “The situation is changing very quickly; it is not safe to let my children leave home.
(7) The long-awaited Dutch report into the shooting down of flight MH17 suggests attempts were made to cover up the causes of the disaster, including the removal from the crash site of parts of the aeroplane showing severe damage from a Buk missile.
(8) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(9) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
(10) A combination of photos show Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo as it detached from the jet aeroplane that carried it aloft and then broke apart.
(11) Recent advances in electronics have clearly taken this a step further, hence the new horror of laptops on board aeroplanes.
(12) A Pennsylvania newspaper on Friday apologised for publishing an editorial cartoon that compared aeroplane seating conditions to those on slave ships.
(13) Lebedev said that readers confronted on aeroplanes with a complimentary copy of the Daily Mail and the Independent were far more likely to read the Mail first.
(14) A Romanian stowaway has survived a 97-minute flight from Vienna to Heathrow while clinging to the retracted undercarriage of the aeroplane.
(15) And wherever the Cosmos went, glamour would be close behind; from weekly parties at Studio 54 to dubious behaviour on aeroplanes, the team became synonymous with excess.
(16) Niemeyer designed most of the city's important buildings, while French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive aeroplane-like layout.
(17) Those inside St James’ Park would eventually be treated to the sight of Kane recovering from a recent dip in form to score his 30th goal of an extraordinary season but, first, they bore witness to a, rather bizarre, first half fly past from an aeroplane bearing a message from some near, and not so dear, neighbours.
(18) Feel my pane After five years avoiding long-haul flights, I was amazed by the transformation of the aeroplane in my absence.
(19) They include Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered, which has operated in China since the 19th century, and Tom Williams, who oversees products for Airbus, the aeroplane manufacturer.
(20) This war, now almost totally forgotten, was the first in which aircraft went up in reconnaissance to signal enemy positions to artillery batteries; it was also the first to see aerial bombardments, using bombs thrown from Italian aeroplanes and airships.
Helicopter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(3) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(4) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
(5) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
(6) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(7) After arriving by helicopter from the nearby island of Ulleungdo, Lee said that South Korea "must continue to protect its territory".
(8) The six helicopters were donated by the U.S. to help in the war on drugs in Guatemala's territory, local media reported.
(9) Coastguard Mohamed al-Alay said the refugees, carrying official UN refugee agency (UNHCR) documents, were travelling from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
(10) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
(11) The purpose of this study was to identify, characterize, and compare the forces generated during patient transport in helicopter and ground ambulances.
(12) A chronology of the disaster, involving two helicopter crashes which left 11 dead, is presented.
(13) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(14) This is code for so-called "helicopter drops" of money, in which the Treasury would effectively write cheques to the public.
(15) We examined retrospectively the demographic and clinical factors associated with the collection experience in a series of 288 trauma patients transferred by helicopter from another acute care facility to an inner-city hospital.
(16) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(17) Such an analytical investigation enables the author to conclude that one must admit that helicopter piloting involves a psycho-physical workload certainly no less than that required by more powerful and faster aircraft.
(18) Using automatic and observer-operated equipment for monitoring thermal data, observations have been made during Royal Navy Wessex 5 helicopter operations in a sub-Arctic climate.
(19) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(20) The Egyptian officials told the Associated Press that three helicopters targeted militants in the desert town of Sheik Zuweyid late on Saturday.