The phrase "airplane hours" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in aviation contexts to refer to the total hours spent flying an aircraft.
Example: "The pilot logged over 1,500 airplane hours before being eligible for the captain position."
Alternatives: "flight hours" or "flying hours".
But the loss of a leg and glaucoma conspired to end the flying career of the woman who at her death at 102, on Thursday in Jefferson City, Tenn., had piloted an airplane more hours than anybody else alive — 57,635.4 hours, or more than 6 1/2 years.
The Giants were stuck on an airplane for hours late Friday night, well into the early hours of Saturday morning.
Only after being placed on an airplane several hours later did anyone identify themselves as being with the US Drug Enforcement Administration or inform them that they had been charged, they said.
USC mechanical engineering junior Stephanie Balais developed a passion for aerospace after joining the university's AeroDesign team and helping to construct an airplane fuselage hours before transporting the plane to a competition in Kansas.
He has a 20-year background as a fitness trainer and used to be an actor -- but now when he gets a phone call and finds himself on an airplane two hours later heading to a movie set, he isn't going there to act.
The tarmac delay rule was prompted by a series of incidents in which passengers complained of being stranded on airplanes for hours with no chance of getting off, often with little food or water, and in some cases without functioning bathrooms.
It took Jefferson Airplane an hour to get the crowd back after I did that sound.
Rick Ross' two seizures aboard two different airplanes within hours of one another has had many around Ross voicing concern for the Teflon Don's health.
At the war's peak, the Long Beach plant turned out a finished airplane every hour, including the workhorse C-47 "Skytrain". It was the versatile military version of the popular DC-3 and was used in each of the war's theaters of operation.
O'Hare's north tower opened with 27 Right in 2008, and raised O'Hare's capacity when the wind is coming from the west — about 70 percent of the time — to land 114 airplanes an hour, up from 72.
