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Spraying device on plane carrying King Henry (8)

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I believe the answer is:

airbrush

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'spraying device' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'on plane carrying king henry' is the wordplay.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'plane' becomes 'airbus' (I have seen 'Large plane ' mean 'air bus' so perhaps 'plane' could also mean 'air bus').
'carrying' is an insertion indicator.
'king' becomes 'r' (r is abbreviation for rex).
'henry' becomes 'h' (symbol for the unit of electrical inductance).
'airbus' going around 'r' is 'airbrus'.
'airbrus'+'h' is 'AIRBRUSH'.

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(Other definitions for airbrush that I've seen before include "It's used to enhance a photograph" , "it's to smooth out the wrinkles" , "Device for touching up a photograph" , "Touch up a photograph to mask defects" , "Improve the image" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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