aerodrome

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#1·4h ago

An airfield.

1908 June 8, Nikola Tesla, Little Aeroplane Progress: So Says Nikola Tesla-But He Is Working on One of His Own, letter to The New York Times, Page 6,

Origin: * (aircraft): In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” , from . * (airfield): In the sense of “airfield”, from , a suffix formed in analogy with horse racecourse, from Ancient Greek. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·4h ago

(obsolete) A flying machine composed of airfoils, aerodynamic surfaces. An airplane, aircraft, particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.

: The Langley and Maxim aerodromes, which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.

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