Thesaurus results for AIR TAXI

air taxi

noun

Definition of air taxi

as in plane

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Recent Examples of air taxi Current battery-electric systems can only typically sustain short flights of about 100 to 200 miles, which is why they have been limited to air taxi operations by companies such as Joby and Archer. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026 Archer Faces The Industrialization Test For Archer, the agreement represents more than the acquisition of an air taxi competitor. — Alex Krutz, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The company operates as a rideshare program where customers can book an all-electric air taxi on an app. — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Aug. 2026 The Daily Dividend Archer shares soared almost 20% yesterday after the air taxi company unveiled its autonomous military vehicle with Anduril. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for air taxi

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Noun

Blair also attempted to open the plane door while in the air.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Creating a licensing body is not a bizarre idea in a world where the FAA determines the airworthiness of planes and banks must pass stress tests to operate.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Starlink services were cut off for objects that traveled more than 100 mph, impacting the capabilities of Ukraine’s drones, airplanes and helicopters, a source familiar with the matter told The Hill.

— Suryatapa Chakraborty, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2026
Multiple resources were called in on the night of the shooting, including SWAT, K-9 teams, patrol officers, drones, a Denver Police Department helicopter and a Colorado State Patrol airplane.

— Jack Lowenstein, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of airplane

Noun

Elsewhere, Arca took festival glam into more experimental territory with graphic liner and a delicate flush of pink, while Elisha Herbert embraced a smoky, high-shine look for Mugler.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2026
Miguel Vargas was doubled off second on Kyle Teel’s sharp liner to end the fifth.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of liner

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The system provides information about an aircraft’s attitude, heading and position to flight-critical systems.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration told CBS News and Politico that the vehicle doesn’t meet its definition of an aircraft, meaning the agency wouldn’t need to certify it as airworthy.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

The sci-fi concept of a supersonic airliner became reality only after France and Britain signed a 1962 treaty to develop Concorde, jointly tackling technical quandaries commercial aviation had never faced.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
All 176 passengers and crew members on board were killed by Iranian surface-to-air missiles that brought the Boeing 737 airliner down, with Iranian authorities at first covering up the tragedy.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of airliner

Noun

Today, while a new generation of supersonic transports is under development, civilian aviation is consigned to speeds below that of sound, though some business jets can go over Mach 9-and-a-bit.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.

— Made by History, Time, 1 Apr. 2025

Definition of supersonic transport

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The ship’s 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Virgin decided to move on to the Delta-class program after completing 12 flights to the edge of space—above 80 km or 50 miles, as defined by the US government—with the previous-generation VSS Unity rocket plane.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
These lower operating expenses are tied to Virgin Galactic's decision to suspend operations of its VSS Unity suborbital rocket plane last year to focus investment into a new series of suborbital spacecraft known as Delta-class ships.

— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025

Definition of rocket plane

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