flight
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Flight is the ability to move through the air, demonstrated by both animals like birds and by human-engineered aircraft. It matters because it has enabled humans to travel rapidly across distances and connect distant places, as shown by modern commercial aviation.
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36 sectionsContents
- Types of flight
- Buoyant flight
- Aerodynamic flight
- Unpowered flight versus powered flight
- Animal flight
- Supersonic
- Hypersonic
- Ballistic
- Atmospheric
- Spaceflight
- Solid-state propulsion
- History
- Aviation
- Spaceflight
- Physics
- Forces
- Thrust
- Lift
- Drag
- Lift-to-drag ratio
- Buoyancy
- Thrust to weight ratio
- Flight dynamics
- Energy efficiency
- Range
- Power-to-weight ratio
- Takeoff and landing
- Guidance, navigation and control
- Navigation
- Guidance
- Control
- Traffic
- Flight safety
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Bird flight by a [[brown pelican.]] thumb|Human-engineered flight: a United Airlines [[Boeing 787 taking off from Heathrow Airport in December 2013.]]
Flight or flying is the motion of an object through an atmosphere or through the vacuum of space, in this case also called spaceflight, without contacting any planetary surface. This can be achieved by generating aerodynamic lift associated with gliding or propulsive thrust, aerostatically using buoyancy, or by ballistic movement.