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What is the difference between the flight of a plane and a helicopter?
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∙ 14y ago
Both use the pressure difference caused by air moving over the wings at different speeds to generate lift; a plane by moving those wings in the direction of travel, a helicopter by spinning the "wings" around at high speed.
This requies that the plane be in constant forward motion in order for the wings to make lift. Thus airplanes must roll along the runaway to take-off. A helicopter cant take off at zero forward speed and hover at zero forward speed. The helicopter can land and take off vertically. Thus, they are good for landing in unimproved spots such as done by air ambulances.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoAn airplane flies by pushing its wings forward through the air.
A helicopter flies by swinging its wings around in a circle.
This enables the helicopter to attain flight-capable airspeeds on the wing surface without the helicopter itself having to move.
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∙ 9y agoThe simple answer is that an airplane and a jet use the air around us for lift. Spacecraft are designed to fly outside of our atmosphere so there is no air. They use powerful rocket engines to lift themselves into space.
A spacecraft must be sealed for anyone to live in it. It must carry anything but fuel only its fuel but the oxygen to burn the rocket engines. An airplane can bring in air from the outside for people to breath and to burn the fuel it carries.
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∙ 12y agoA spacecraft must be sealed for anyone to live in it. It must carry anything but fuel only its fuel but the oxygen to burn the rocket engines.
An airplane can bring in air from the outside for people to breath and to burn the fuel it carries.
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∙ 9y agoNo, aircraft are not airplanes. However airplanes are a type of aircraft.
Airplane:A fixed wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift caused by the vehicle's forward airspeedand the shape of the wings. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which the wings form a rotor mounted on a spinning shaft and ornithopters in which the wings flap in similar manner to a bird.
Aircraft:An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.
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∙ 10y agoHelicopters have rotors for lift. Vtol uses ducted jets.
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∙ 7y agoA plane needs air, a rocket doesn't.
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