airbus

or air bus

[ air-buhs ]

/ ˈɛərˌbʌs /

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noun

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

Origin of airbus

First recorded in 1905–10; air¹ + bus¹

Words nearby airbus

airbrasive, airbrick, airbrush, airbrush out, airburst, airbus, aircav, aircraft, aircraft carrier, aircraft cloth, aircraft observer

Example sentences from the Web for airbus

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

Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 |Clive Irving |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.

Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 |Clive Irving |January 6, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
They should have pointed the nose of the Airbus down and applied more power.

Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? |Clive Irving |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.

Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? |Clive Irving |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST

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

Who Will Get AsiaAir 8501’s Black Boxes? |Clive Irving |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He opened the letter when he had settled down in a comfortable morris chair in the airbus.

The Man Who Staked the Stars |Charles Dye

British Dictionary definitions for airbus

Airbus

/ (ˈɛəˌbʌs) /

noun

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

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airbus

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