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heavier-than-air

[ hev-ee-er-thuhn-air ]

adjective

  1. (of an aircraft) weighing more than the air that it displaces, hence having to obtain lift by aerodynamic means.


heavier-than-air

adjective

  1. having a density greater than that of air
  2. of or relating to an aircraft that does not depend on buoyancy for support but gains lift from aerodynamic forces
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of heavier-than-air1

First recorded in 1900–05
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The extravaganza was mounted barely six years after the Wright brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, N.C. in the first heavier-than-air manned flight.

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Safety concerns increased in 2020 after a pipeline in Mississippi ruptured in a landslide, releasing a heavier-than-air plume of carbon dioxide that displaced oxygen near the ground.

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Two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, conducted four machine-powered, heavier-than-air flights under human control on a single day in December.

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The $2.1 billion rover will also come with the first helicopter, known as Ingenuity, that will let researchers understand the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet.

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Like many scientifically minded people of that era, Christmas was infatuated with heavier-than-air flight.

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