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air-plane|ˈɛəpleɪn|
[f. air- + plane n.3]
1. The air regarded as a horizontal plane. nonce-use.
1874Belgravia IV. 168 Not all the rudders and flappers..can ever enable the aeronaut to navigate his machine horizontally—to one hand or the other of the air-plane on which he is sailing.
2. [Alteration of aeroplane, after air- III.] Also airplane.
†a. = aeroplane 1;
b. = aeroplane 2 b (esp. U.S.). Also attrib.
a.1896J. Challis in Invention 13 June 380/2 The combined use of the screw and aeroplane (why not call it air plane) principles.
b.1907Westm. Gaz. 19 July 4/2 It is this ease of going against the current, with no motive force in evidence, that is..the despair of the aeronauts with their air-planes. 1916Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XIV. 48 Airplane reconnaissance. 1917N.A.C.A. (U.S.) Rep. Nomencl. Aeronaut. 31 Airplane..This term is commonly used in a more restricted sense to refer to airplanes fitted with landing gear suited to operation from the land. If the landing gear is suited to operation from the water, the term ‘Seaplane’ is used. 1918King's Regs. R.A.F. §1024 a, The supply of patent fire-extinguishers is to be limited to the following services:—Motor boats. Motor vehicles. Airplanes. Seaplanes. 1928A. L. James Broadcast English I. 21 Aeroplane..the [B.B.C. Advisory] Committee [on Spoken English] advises the use of the word airplane. 1930H. G. Wells Autocr. Mr. Parham iv. i. 279 The airplane carrier Courageous. 1937Daily Express 2 Feb. 3/4 The islanders clamber into the airplane as though they were boarding a bus. 1956W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 33/1 ‘Airplane’ is preferred to ‘aeroplane’ in American usage, having received official sanction in Army publications as early as 1918. |