sesquiplane

American  

[ses-kwi-pleyn] / ˈsɛs kwɪˌpleɪn /

noun

Aeronautics.

1. a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.

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Etymology

Origin of sesquiplane

sesqui- + plane ¹

Example Sentences

Down and into Dallas's Love field, busiest airport of the southwest, slipped Coste's red sesquiplane "Point d'lnterrogation" last week at the end of a 1,700-mi. flight from New York.

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Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster.

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Question Mark At Le Bourget airfield near Paris, the crimson Breguet sesquiplane Question Mark, weighted down by 1,350 gal. of fuel, roared down a runway, pulled itself off the ground and over a line of trees, vanished in the haze to the northwest.

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The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year.

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