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    may be unpowered as well as powered. Heavier-than-air aircraft, such as airplanes, must find some way to push air or gas downwards so that a reaction occurs...
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    Aviation (redirect from Air transport)
    repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making the idea of "heavier than air" a reality. Newspapers and magazines published photographs of Lilienthal...
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  • Heavier Than Air – Rarest Eggs is an album of compiled live tracks spanning Budgie's career. We Came, We Saw... is a companion to this album. Disc 1: "Rape...
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  • containers or semi-trailers, operating slightly heavier than air. A patent for "[a] cargo-carrying air ship [sic] compris[ing] a gas-filled, low aspect...
    16 KB (1,728 words) - 14:35, 27 May 2024
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    attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred years BC and...
    128 KB (14,985 words) - 10:28, 19 July 2024
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    Raptor, F-15 Eagle, and Su-27. Bombers are normally larger, heavier, and less maneuverable than fighter aircraft. They are capable of carrying large payloads...
    19 KB (2,148 words) - 16:42, 8 June 2024
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    Airplane (redirect from Air-plane)
    airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". They built on the works of George Cayley dating from...
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    the first rational proposal for a flying machine of the aeroplance [heavier-than-air] type..." Meanwhile, rotorcraft were not wholly forgotten. In July...
    113 KB (14,967 words) - 11:32, 30 June 2024
  • Lifting gas (redirect from Lighter than air)
    lighter than air and could theoretically be used as a lifting gas. However, it is extremely corrosive, highly toxic, expensive, is heavier than other lifting...
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    contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers,...
    169 KB (19,272 words) - 10:08, 18 July 2024
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    Airship (redirect from Air ship)
    characteristics of heavier-than-air (aeroplane or helicopter) and lighter-than-air technology. Examples include helicopter/airship hybrids intended for heavy lift applications...
    131 KB (15,949 words) - 16:03, 20 July 2024
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    A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings or rotor blades, which generate lift by rotating around a vertical...
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    An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's...
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    Archdeacon, a silver trophy for the first flight of more than 25 metres by a 'heavier-than-air' craft. Later, the Aéro-Club de France offered a prize of...
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    lift. Aerodynamics work throughout the 19th century sought to achieve heavier-than-air flight. George Cayley developed the concept of the modern fixed-wing...
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    Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903. Invented...
    52 KB (5,937 words) - 14:05, 4 July 2024
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    Wright brothers (category Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
    made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, four miles (6 km)...
    149 KB (17,404 words) - 06:32, 28 June 2024
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    of the early efforts in aerodynamics were directed toward achieving heavier-than-air flight, which was first demonstrated by Otto Lilienthal in 1891. Since...
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    20th century—which enabled successful heavier-than-air flight also produced rapid advances in lighter-than-air flight, particularly in Germany where the...
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    A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift. Fixed-wing aircraft...
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