Moving an airplane on the ground is called 'taxiing'
statistics say airplane.
The force that is activated because of the mass of the airplane and pulls the airplane towards the ground is gravity. Gravity is the force of attraction between two masses, in this case, the Earth and the airplane.
A runway?
Gravity.
The engines, driving propellers or jets, make the airplane move.
An airplane gets its thrust from its engines, which intake air, compress it, mix it with fuel, ignite the mixture, and then expel the hot exhaust gases out of the back of the engine, propelling the plane forward. This thrust generated by the engines enables the airplane to overcome drag and lift off the ground.
to assualt the ground from an airplane with machine guns or cannons mounted on the airplane.
The airplane in the movie Airplane is a Boeing 707
As an airplane moves forward a vacuum forms on top of the wing. That vacuum lifts the airplane off the ground and into the air.
You need to be more specific, did you mean "air-to-air" (airplane vs airplane) battles, or "air-to-ground" (airplane vs troops/ground emplacements) battles?
because the ground is solid
With the plane