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Recent Examples of airliner
The commercial Overture airliners will be able to carry 64 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7, about twice the speed of today’s subsonic airliners, meaning a flight could cross the Atlantic in just about 3 1/2 hours.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Although none of these three airliners was deliberately targeted, airliners have presented a tempting terrorist target for more than 50 years.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.
—Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Although none of these three airliners was deliberately targeted, airliners have presented a tempting terrorist target for more than 50 years.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.
—Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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These are some of the stocks posting the largest moves in premarket trading: Boeing — The airplane maker slipped 1.3% after preliminary fourth-quarter financial results reflected ongoing struggles.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2025
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More than 10,400 refugees around the globe who had been approved for travel to the United States suddenly found their entry denied, their airplane tickets worthless.—
Michael D. Shear,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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In pet news, a cat named Mittens recently made three trips between Australia and New Zealand in 24 hours after being accidentally left behind on a plane.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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Like an airline pilot operating a plane, these episodes steer their respective series, establishing the tone, characters, and other essential aspects of the program.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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The object suddenly shifted its longitudinal axis, aligned it with my aircraft and began to climb.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
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According to the Associated Press, Mittens was traveling with her family from Christchurch, New Zealand to their new permanent location in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 13, when staff forgot to remove her from the aircraft on arrival.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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This particular helmet also sports rows of tiny holes, which would have been used to attach helmet liners via small metal fasteners.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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The goodbye celebrations were planned for the ocean liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on her maiden voyage from New York to Cornwall, England, in 1952.—
Danny Freeman,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
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That is, flight so close to Mach 1 that some areas of airflow over the airframe exceed the speed of sound.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Jan. 2025
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The Ukrainian air force went to war with 43 flyable Su-25s, got an extra 18 airframes from Macedonia and Bulgaria and lost at least 20 of the jets in action, leaving at most 41 in service.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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Guests on the Abercrombie & Kent Adriatic Voyage, which features ports of call in Croatia, Montenegro, and Greece, can ride aboard the largest ship able to navigate the Corinth Canal.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Jan. 2025
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If Trump does implement steeper tariffs on Canadian goods, McCain could shift even more of its production to the U.S. Suppliers could jump ship to a U.S. rival like Lamb Weston.—
Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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Since uniting last year in a powerful alliance, gangs have opened fire on three U.S. jetliners, shot at a U.N. helicopter, raided the two largest prisons and carried out several massacres.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
20 Jan. 2025
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At this point in time, both Airbus and Boeing have not announced a new jetliner design, but JetZero has.—
Alex Krutz,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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