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heavier-than-air

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces

How To Use heavier-than-air In A Sentence

  • In 1886, he designed a steam-powered aircraft, and in 1896 became the first to build heavier-than-air machines capable of sustained flight.
  • For the most part, this technology culture appeared at the same time as the air service itself, due to the nature of heavier-than-air flight.
  • Some day soon, even non-science-fiction readers might come to believe that a moonshot is possible, or a rotary engine, or a heavier-than-air flying machine, or a submersible vehicle capable of sailing under the Antarctic icecap! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
  • They are also reminiscent of the 19th century scientists who claimed that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible.
  • It has been thoroughly researched in recent times that Richard Pearse was the first human being to take to the air in a heavier-than-air flying machine, and I think that is an absolutely wonderful thing.
  • Actually, Augustus Moore Herring was quite a pioneer during the very earliest days of heavier-than-air flight.
  • The first photograph from a heavier-than-air aircraft was taken in 1908. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the same decade he also became a passionate balloonist, and dreamed of directed flight by heavier-than-air vehicles. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Named after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-19O6), American astronomer, physicist, and pioneer in the development of heavier-than-air craft.
  • That way lies scientistic dismissals of heavier-than-air flight because this would clearly be in contravention of the law of gravity. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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