tri|mo|tor

tri|mo|tor
tri|mo|tor «TRY MOH tuhr», noun.
an airplane fitted with three motors: »

The old Ford trimotor, the…monoplane with the corrugated aluminum sides, was perhaps the first truly modern air transport (Newsweek).


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