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An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, or \alpha (Greek letter alpha)) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.
Antoinette was a French manufacturer of light petrol engines.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
The pioneer era of aviation refers to the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail.
A crosswind is any wind that has a perpendicular component to the line or direction of travel.
The 1911 Curtiss Model D (or frequently, "Curtiss Pusher") was an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot's seat.
Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions.
A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage.
In aviation, a ground loop is a rapid rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft in the horizontal plane (yawing) while on the ground.
A hangar is a closed building structure to hold aircraft, or spacecraft.
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel.
The Heinkel He 178 was the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power, and the first practical jet aircraft.
The Heinkel He 219 Uhu ("Eagle-Owl") was a night fighter that served with the German Luftwaffe in the later stages of World War II.
The Heinkel He 280 was the first turbojet-powered fighter aircraft in the world.
Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground.
The landing flare, also referred to as the round out, is a maneuver or stage during the landing of an aircraft.
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft and may be used for either takeoff or landing.
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.
Parasitic drag is drag that results when an object is moved through a fluid medium.
An aircraft propeller, or airscrew,Beaumont, R.A.; Aeronautical Engineering, Odhams, 1942, Chapter 13, "Airscrews".
The Rolls-Royce RB.41 Nene was a 1940s British centrifugal compressor turbojet engine.
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".
A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow.
The Supermarine Attacker was a British single-seat naval jet fighter built by Supermarine for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA).
A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.
The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey.
Waldo Waterman in 1920 Waldo Dean Waterman (June 16, 1894 – December 8, 1976) was an inventor and aviation pioneer from San Diego, California.
The Whatsit was a swept-wing, tail-less airplane designed by Waldo Waterman between 1911 (when he first got the idea) and 1932 (when the prototype was finally in testing phase).
Wheel-barrowing is a problem that may occur when a pilot places excessive forward pressure on the flight controls of an aeroplane with a tricycle gear configuration during takeoff or landing.
The Yakovlev Yak-15 (Яковлев Як-15; NATO reporting name: Feather, USAF/DOD designation Type 2) was a first-generation Soviet turbojet fighter developed by the Yakovlev design bureau (OKB) immediately after World War II.