A fixed wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed and the shape of the wings. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.
A powered fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine or propeller is typically called an aeroplane, airplane, or simply a plane. Other types of powered fixed-wing aircraft include powered paragliders and ground effect vehicles. Unpowered fixed-wing aircraft, including gliders, paragliders, hang gliders and kites, can use moving air to gain height.
Most fixed-wing aircraft are flown by a pilot on board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled.
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. The English word aircraft is singular and plural...
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on Oct 31, 2012 , 07:14 am
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Sure Manush posted the Blog
on Jun 03, 2011 , 08:31 am
SUKHOI SU-27/30 AIRCRAFT EFFECTIVENESS VERSUS REPUTATION
Since the post-Soviet boom of arms export orders experienced by Moscow began in the early 1990s, in almost any given year over 50 per cent of this export revenue is from the sale of Su-27/30 aircraft. Nowhere are the success and capabilities of this aircraft more evident than in the Asia-Pacific region. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), India, Vietnam - and then later Malaysia and Indonesia - are all customers for this well-known Sukhoi fighter.Most of these clients subsequen more »
Michelle Luo posted the Blog
on Jun 08, 2009 , 07:25 am
France air plane 17 crash victims found
RECIFE, Brazil, June 7 (UPI) -- Officials in Brazil said Sunday 17 bodies have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean at the crash site of Air France Flight 447.
More debris also was found, with a Brazilian air force official saying Brazilian radar-equipped planes had located "greater parts of the plane's body" below the surface, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The crash site of flight 447 is nearly 700 miles off the Brazilian coast in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Banned Commercials - Airplane Accident
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