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Definition of Military plane

1. Noun. An aircraft designed and used for combat.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Plane

Literary usage of Military plane

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Yankee Ingenuity in the War by Frank Parker Stockbridge (1920)
"... but also downward and sideways over a very large THE FASTEST YANKEE MILITARY 'PLANE The Loening monoplane, America's answer to German superiority in ..."

2. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"And again, in a military plane, it is undesirable to have this to such a degree as to interfere with control of direction. As the airplane is symmetrical ..."

3. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"For a military plane, enough inherent stability is required so that (i) a machine which has been upset for any reason will always go into a nose dive: (2) ..."

4. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"military plane Table.—A small plane table or sketching board used in military mapping. Military Police.—Police whose duty is to enforce all police ..."

5. The Aerospace Year Book (1919)
"The weight distribution of a military plane is not suited for commerce and the fuselage is not strong enough. Sufficient room for the required load must be ..."

6. The Engineer in War: With Special Reference to the Training of the Engineer by Paul Stanley Bond (1916)
"Methods of military plane table sketching.—Measurement of distances, angles, slopes and elevations.—"Map distances" defined.—Fixing the contour points. ..."

7. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1921)
"Any commercial airplane can be transformed overnight into some kind of valuable military plane. l THE TWIN-MOTORED DE ..."

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