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Aircraft Controls /
Published 2012“…Here, we describe the control surfaces used on a fixed wing aircraft of conventional design. Other fixed wing aircraft configurations may use different control surfaces but the basic principles remain. …”
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All About Helicopters (Types, Components and Equipments) /
Published 2012“…These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft would not be able to take off or land. …”
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Types of Civil Aircrafts /
Published 2012“…After more effective insecticides and fungicides were developed in the 1940s, and aerial topdressing was developed by government research in New Zealand, purpose-built agricultural fixed-wing aircraft became common.…”
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Canard Aeronautics & Aircrafts /
Published 2012“…In aeronautics , canard ( French for duck ) is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the forward surface is smaller than the rearward, the former being known as the "canard", while the latter is the main wing. …”
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Types of Aircraft Takeoff and Landing Phases /
Published 2012“…For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft (VTOL aircraft such as the Harrier), no runway is needed. …”
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General Aviation Activities /
Published 2012“…Platforms for aerial photography include fixed wing aircraft, helicopters, balloons, blimps and Dirigibles, rockets, kites, poles, parachutes, vehicle mounted poles. …”
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Aircraft Flight Dynamics
Published 2012“…The roll angle is also known as bank angle on a fixed wing aircraft, which usually "banks" to change the horizontal direction of flight.…”
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Know All About Airliners /
Published 2012“…An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft for transporting passengers and cargo. …”
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Encyclopedia of Military Aircrafts /
Published 2012“…A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. …”
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Encyclopedia of Airships /
Published 2012“…Unlike aerodynamic aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, which produce lift by moving a wing through the air, aerostatic aircraft, such as airships and a balloons, stay aloft by filling a large cavity with a lifting gas. …”
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Handbook of Aircraft Wing Configurations /
Published 2012“…This chapter summarizes the wing configurations of fixed-wing aircraft, popularly called aeroplanes, airplanes or just planes. …”
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Electric and Mixed-Power Aircrafts /
Published 2012“…The motor following year, Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs flew La France with a more powerful ground or the ionosphere Nikolai Tesla envisaged using electrically powered aircraft, powered by beams from the with a challenged claim from 1909 Electric motors have been used for model fixed-wing aircraft since at least 1957, In 1964 William C Brown demonstrates on CBS News with Walter Cronkite a model helicopter that receives all of the power needed for flight from a microwave beam. …”
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Encyclopedia of Seaplanes and Flying Boats /
Published 2012“…Grumman G-111 Albatross amphibious flying boar of Chalks International Airlines landing in Miami Harbor in March 1987. A sea plane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water. …”
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Advanced Aircraft Components /
Published 2012“…Ailerons are hinged control surfaces attached to the trailing edge of the wing of a fixed wing aircraft. The ailerons are used to control the aircraft in roll. …”
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Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles /
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Aircraft Wing Design Technologies /
Published 2012“…2 An aircraft rolling with its ailerons Ailerons are hinged control surfaces attached to the trailing edge of the wing of a fixed wing aircraft. The ailerons are used to control the aircraft in roll. …”
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