Aircraft flight mechanics are relevant to gliders, helicopters and aeroplanes. An Aeroplane (Airplane in US usage), is defined as: a power-driven heavier than air aircraft, deriving its lift chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surface which remain fixed under given conditions of flight (ICAO Document 9110).
Read more about Aircraft Flight Mechanics: Straight and Level Flight of Aircraft, Aircraft Control and Movement, Aircraft Control Surfaces
Famous quotes containing the words flight and/or mechanics:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)