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- Aircraft (redirect from Heavier than air flight)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...53 KB (5,964 words) - 17:04, 18 June 2024
- 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...39 KB (4,056 words) - 08:13, 25 June 2024
- 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...2 KB (228 words) - 11:27, 18 April 2022
- Aereon 26 (section Heavier-than-air)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
- History of aviation (redirect from Air transport history)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
- Military aircraft (section Heavier-than-air)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
- Early flying machines (section Heavier than air)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...20 KB (2,644 words) - 19:31, 9 June 2024
- Alberto Santos-Dumont (section Heavier-than-air flight)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
- 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...13 KB (1,449 words) - 14:06, 14 December 2023
- 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...25 KB (2,163 words) - 14:15, 16 June 2024
- 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...16 KB (1,891 words) - 04:42, 12 April 2024
- lift. Aerodynamics work throughout the 19th century sought to achieve heavier-than-air flight. George Cayley developed the concept of the modern fixed-wing...29 KB (3,896 words) - 00:44, 19 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- of the early efforts in aerodynamics were directed toward achieving heavier-than-air flight, which was first demonstrated by Otto Lilienthal in 1891. Since...41 KB (4,758 words) - 11:36, 14 June 2024
- Aviation in the pioneer era (section Lighter-than-air)20th century—which enabled successful heavier-than-air flight also produced rapid advances in lighter-than-air flight, particularly in Germany where the...49 KB (6,760 words) - 04:23, 21 July 2024
- Fixed-wing aircraft (section Air frame)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...53 KB (6,462 words) - 21:48, 17 June 2024
- heavier-than-air (comparative form only) (of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces. 1914, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in
- Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeded in the world's first powered, heavier-than-air, controlled flight on December 17, 1903, the Signal Corps expressed
- contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. How often have things been proved to me impossible
- longer-distance air transport. The Wright Brothers are credited for the first powered, sustained and controlled flight with their heavier-than-air Wright flyer