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- noun Plural form of
aeronaut .
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Examples
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Do you think the United States should have abandoned the development of airplanes and created a program to shoot government "aeronauts" out of cannons?
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Do you think the United States should have abandoned the development of airplanes and created a program to shoot government "aeronauts" out of cannons?
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The overcooked story deals with hot-air balloons, adventures of "aeronauts" parachuting from them at county fairs and exhibitions, and what happens when a boy stows away on a balloon that must be brought to the ground after passing over San Francisco Bay.
“And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008
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The first "aeronauts," Joseph Montgolfier, James Sadler and Vincenzo Lunardi, wowed crowds of thousands by achieving the dream of human flight with their hot-air balloons, engineering prowess, showmanship and an arrogance best expressed by a toast once proposed by Lunardi: "I give you me, Lunardi -- whom all the ladies love."
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In a sort of car or boat attached, men, who are called "aeronauts," have performed journeys through the air.
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Though the sight of "aeronauts" soaring into the sky has been a popular attraction, an ugly row has broken out between the company operating the wind tunnel and the Latvian
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Cultural workers like artists and shamans, certain kinds of engineers and physicists — like aeronauts and submariners, telephonic engineers and astronomers — and the social scientists who work the interfaces between those fields of work — geographers.
I'm of two minds 2008
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Cultural workers like artists and shamans, certain kinds of engineers and physicists — like aeronauts and submariners, telephonic engineers and astronomers — and the social scientists who work the interfaces between those fields of work — geographers.
October 2008 2008
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In the decades following the Wright Brothers, "tourism flights" were the primary mechanism by which those early aeronauts earned their living.
Peter Diamandis: Commercial Spaceflight for the Rest of Us -- Congratulations to Virgin Galactic 2009
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I had to revise my notion that butterflies are capricious or random aeronauts.
Utopiales Poster, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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