The phrase "airplane speed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the velocity or rate of travel of an aircraft.
Example: "The airplane speed during takeoff was significantly higher than expected due to the strong tailwind."
Alternatives: "aircraft speed" or "plane velocity".
"There's been very little progress," he said, in airplane speed or performance since he entered the field in 1965, although the electronics inside the planes have improved.
The train speed is much lower than the airplane speed because airplanes flight in a circumstance of rarefied gas in the high altitude.
According to the report released Monday, the FAA will look into several of the community groups' suggestions — including whether to change flight paths so more planes come in over water, to adjust airplane speed to manage noise and to modify the angle and timing at which planes come into Northern California Metroplex airports.
The airplane speeded its demise.
When the weight was dropped, the airplane sped down the track and into the air.
Within the next few decades both propeller-driven gas-turbine engines (turboprops) and pure jet engines developed rapidly, with the latter assuming an ever larger role as airplane speeds increased.
More than all the other hectic engines that drove the acceleration of the past century more than the automobile, more than television the airplane sped us to where we are now.
In their haste, they forgot to retract the airplane's speed brakes, which are flaps on the wings that made climbing more difficult.
Before Boeing scrapped the idea, there was talk about increasing the airplane's speed, but even then it would have flown only slightly faster than the sound barrier -- and still far slower than Concorde.
Separately, however, the airline is arguing that a system called the "rudder limiter," which keeps a pilot from moving the rudder farther than is safe at the airplane's speed, does not work well on the A300.
When Colorado goalie Patrick Roy made the turnover that led to a tying goal by Scott Gomez midway through the third period, the rush of energy was like that of an airplane gathering speed on a runway before takeoff.
