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A helicopter is an aircraft without fixed wings. Helicopters can also be known as rotorcraft.
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What kind of aircraft doesnt use fixed wings?
Helicopters don't use fixed wings
Can a plane fly without wings?
While there have been some wingless "lifting body" experimental aircraft. All conventional airplanes get the the majority of their lift from their wings and cannot fly without them. No. By definition, A PLANE is a fixed-wing aircraft. The wings are absolutely necessary for lift.
Can A PLANE fly with out wings?
No. By definition, A PLANE is a fixed-wing aircraft. The wings are absolutely necessary for lift.
Can aircraft fly without wings?
If it didn't have wings, it'd be a rocket.
Why do SR-71 have wings?
All type of aircraft need wings. They are the parts that make an airplane fly. Without wings it is not even an aircraft.
How airplanes work?
Fixed wing aircraft work by using a kind of propeller or engine to pull the aircraft forward and the wings produce lift.
What is a large aircraft without wings?
An airplane with the wings chopped off then fired from a giant slingshot.
What is a Fixed Wing Airplane?
A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft which has wings that are attached to the aircraft and do not move. The term is used to differentiate airplanes from other types of flying vehicles such as lifting-body aircraft (balloons and blimps) or rotary aircraft such as helicopters and auto gyros. All airplanes are considered fixed-wing aircraft and even swing-wing or otherwise moving-wing airplanes are usually referred to as being in the fixed-wing category of aircraft.
What is the definition of airplane?
A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings from which it derives most of its lift.
Why does the rotors spin on an helicopter?
The rotor blades on a helicopter work the same way as wings on a fixed wing aircraft. The air passing faster over the top of the airfoil generates lift. Helicopter rotors spin so that the lift is generated without having to have forward airspeed like a fixed wing aircraft.
What is the use of wings on a aircraft?
An aircrafts wings create lift and drag. Without wings, the craft would have difficulty even getting airborne.
Why fixed wing aircraft need less power-full engine to fly then a helicopter?
Possibly...because the wings add lift to the aircraft; whereas the chopper has no wings and must create it's own lift. Helicopter crewmen call helicopters "rotor-wing" aircraft, apparently the rotor blades on the choppers act like "wings."
