View synonyms for airbus

airbus

or air bus

[ air-buhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a short-range or medium-range commercial passenger airplane, especially one that is part of a frequent shuttlelike service between two popular destinations.

Airbus

/ ˈɛəˌbʌs /

a commercial aircraft manufactured and marketed by an international consortium of aerospace companies

Origin of airbus¹

First recorded in 1905–10; air ¹ + bus ¹

Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.

Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.

They should have pointed the nose of the Airbus down and applied more power.

By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.

The wreckage of the Airbus A320 has been located in relatively shallow water.

He opened the letter when he had settled down in a comfortable morris chair in the airbus.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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