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Air New Zealand Limited
Learn how airplanes fly
Supermarine Spitfire F-86 turbojet flight simulator airship Searcher UAV unmanned aerial vehicle glider
For Students
airplane summary
Quizzes
(Left) Ball of predictions with answers to questions based on the Magic 8 Ball; (right): Rubik's Cube. (toys)
The Dating Game: Which Came First?
NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.
Man-Made Birds in the Sky
Concorde. Front end of one of the 20 Concorde supersonic airplanes. A joint British French production they flew for 30 years (1973-2003).
Navigating the Sky
Hindenburg zeppelin crashing, 1937
Transportation and Technology Firsts Quiz
Read Next
Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
Businessman using tablet phone on airplane
Why Do You Have to Turn Off Electronic Devices on an Airplane?
Airplane in the sky with a trace of steam contrail.
What Is Known (and Not Known) About Contrails
Discover
A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000
14 Tough Questions Answered
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time
Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls
Pro and Con: School Uniforms
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Thumbnail for flags that look alike quiz Russia, Slovenia, Iceland, Norway
Flags That Look Alike

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Learn how airplanes fly
Gravity, air molecules, an airplane's wings, engines—all of these factors, and more,...
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Watch the “Gossamer Albatross” the first human-powered plane crossing the English Channel in 1979
On June 12, 1979, the Gossamer Albatross became the first human-powered...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Witness the designing and construction of an Airbus A350 aircraft
Learn about the design and construction of an Airbus A350 aircraft.
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
NASA's innovations in preventing bug-strike impacts on planes
Debugging airplanes to improve fuel efficiency.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Know about engineering and how it solves practical problems like building airplanes, skyscrapers, and bridges
Learn how engineers solve practical problems in the world, such as how to build airplanes,...
Video: © The University of Newcastle, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment with thanks to Jeremy Ley and Nick Parker from Light Creative (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Air New Zealand Limited
Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400.
Adrian Pingstone
Supermarine Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire, Britain's premier fighter plane from 1938 through World War...
Quadrant/Flight
F-86
North American Aviation F-86 jet fighter, which became operational in 1949. During...
United States Air Force Museum
turbojet
Cross section of a turbojet and (below) graph of typical operating conditions for...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
flight simulator
U.S. Air Force Gen. Frank Gorec (right) lands a sentry airplane on a flight simulator.
Andrea Hohenforst/NATO E-3A Component
airship
A colorful airship flies over Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
Getty Images for Ameriquest
Searcher UAV
Israeli Aircraft Industries Searcher, a reconnaissance uncrewed aerial vehicle, at...
Itayba
unmanned aerial vehicle
General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the U.S....
Dave Cibley—214th Reconnaissance Group/U.S. Air Force
glider
Glider.
© Americanspirit/Dreamstime.com
ultralight aircraft
Whooping cranes following an ultralight aircraft.
International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI.
Beechcraft Baron
A Beechcraft Baron airplane coming in for a landing. The aircraft is used mainly...
© Aleksander Markin (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Gulfstream G450
The Gulfstream G450 business jet, capable of carrying eight passengers up to 5,000...
© Nordroden/Dreamstime.com
Boeing 737
Cross sections of a Boeing 737 passenger jet.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Concorde
Concorde supersonic passenger transport, which first flew in 1969 and entered commercial...
© Senohrabek/Dreamstime.com
M2-F2 lifting-body research vehicle
NASA's M2-F2 lifting-body research vehicle, 1965. This experimental craft was designed...
NASA
Boeing 747
Boeing 747 about to touch down at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol being guided by runway...
© Michael Rosa/Shutterstock.com
turbofan
High-bypass turbofan with two-spool core and mixed-flow jet.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
turboprop engine driving a single rotation propeller
Turboprop engine driving a single rotation propeller as propulsor.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
ramjet
Arrangement of a ramjet.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
airplane cockpit
Pilots in the cockpit of an airplane.
© Carlos Santa Maria/stock.adobe.com
passenger jet airplane
Parts of a passenger jet airplane.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
How an airplane works
Two physical forces essential to airplane flight are thrust and lift. Jet engines,...
© Merriam-Webster Inc.
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