: an aircraft with two main supporting surfaces usually placed one above the other
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The filmmaker walked on the wing of the biplane and also put on a diving suit to direct Cruise in a harrowing underwater submarine sequence.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Reckoning Ending At the end of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise manages to wrestle the AI key from Gabriel while the pair fight in the cockpit of a biplane.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
Reckoning include its principal villain, Gabriel, whom Ethan defeats for good after a lengthy and climactic aerial chase sequence that involves Ethan jumping from one biplane to another while the rest of his team puts the pieces together to defeat the Entity.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Reckoning Ending At the end of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Cruise manages to wrestle the AI key from Gabriel while the pair fight in the cockpit of a biplane.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
Reckoning include its principal villain, Gabriel, whom Ethan defeats for good after a lengthy and climactic aerial chase sequence that involves Ethan jumping from one biplane to another while the rest of his team puts the pieces together to defeat the Entity.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 23 May 2025
Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
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“Biplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biplane. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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biplane
noun
bi·plane
ˈbī-ˌplān 
: an airplane with two sets of wings usually placed one above the other
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