“Airplane” or “Aeroplane”

Language: Airplane and aeroplane are both English terms.
Usage: Airplane is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American English (en-US) while aeroplane is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (en-GB). Of course, there are other varieties of English that may use one versus the other.
Examples: Below, we provide some examples of when to use airplane or aeroplane with sample sentences.
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Examples in Context

Examples of “airplane”

The first airplane landed at what is…
…the vertical stabilizer failed, the airplane would have leveled out…
…specific interests within the model airplane construction hobby, such as…
…further north than any previous airplane had been, Wilkins and…
…the sale of a vintage airplane that John Ross had
…X-57 Maxwell, a 14-motor, all-electric airplane.
The airplane left Klamath Falls about…
…maker of marine engines and airplane parts until the 1960s.
…was "a very fuel inefficient airplane and at the cost…
…was a need for an airplane with competitive performance; an…

Examples of “aeroplane”

…lift, drag, and thrust; Modern aeroplane design is based on…
…of Trade, announced in The Aeroplane, 27 March 1918; with…
…to the development of the aeroplane industry in the nearby…
…is plucked from her crashing aeroplane and forced to play…
…parachute jump out of an aeroplane, leaping from a Benoist…
…Atlantic Ocean in a single-seated aeroplane on May 20–21, 1927.
Ludlow 1907 Aeroplane
…Heath for evaluation by the Aeroplane and Armament_Experimental Establishment.
…instead emphasising that enhancing the aeroplane was a likelier scenario.
For other cycle, motor-cycle, motor-car, aeroplane and airship companies associated…

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