noun
definition
An airplane that has a single pair of wings
verb
definition
To fly in a monoplane.
Examples of monoplane in a Sentence
A high wing braced monoplane of partly metal structure.
Hubert Latham all but performed the same feat on an Antoinette monoplane.
High wing cantilever monoplane, tapering in plan form and thickness, built on a single box spar of corrugated light alloy sheet.
The Fairlie Parish Church has a plaque commemorating the pilot Alan Boyle, who flew the first British monoplane in 1909.
I am flying in a PA28 - 161 Piper Warrior which is a single engined 4 seater low wing monoplane.
In contrast, the all-metal monoplane Boeing 247 is the first of a new generation of modern airliners.
Recognition Swept, low-wing monoplane with two engines mounted on rear fuselage (1 ).
This is a tailless, low-wing monoplane with swept-back wings of large root chord and having a long, narrow fuselage.
Peformance was to be similar to that of the single-seat monoplane fighters then being developed.
It was the mid 30's before the all metal monoplane became the norm.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to see service with the RAF and the first capable of exceeding 300 mph.
In January 1910 Delagrange was killed by the fracture of one of the wings of a monoplane on which he was flying.