airplane
powered fixed-wing aircraft
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Summary
airplane is an aircraft lift-power class[1]. airplane draws 30,235 Wikipedia views per month (aircraft lift power class category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: product[3]
- Operator: Algerian Air Force[4], Argentine Army Aviation[5], Argentine Air Force[6], Argentine Naval Aviation[7], Chilean Air Force[8], Armed Forces of Chile[9], Chilean Naval Aviation[10]
- Subclass of: fixed-wing aircraft[11]
- Commons category: Aircraft[12]
- Unicode character: ✈[13], 🛪[14], 🛩[15], 🛨[16]
- Powered by: aircraft engine[17]
- Has part(s): aircraft component[18]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1903[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Airplanes[20]
- Described at URL: https://neal.fun/earth-reviews/airplanes[21]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[22], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[23], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[25], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26]
- Used by: airplane in service[27]
- Has effect: noise pollution[28], air pollution[29], travel[30], climate change[31]
- Wing configuration: fixed-wing aircraft[32]
- Different from: Airplane[33], Aeroplane[34], Letadlo[35]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q22001697[36]
- Produced sound: aircraft noise[37]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[38]
- Carbon footprint: 284 grams of CO₂ equivalent per person-kilometer[39], 197.51 gram of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilometre[40]
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Influence
Things named for airplane include Aerosmith[41], a rock band[42], founded in 1969[43].
Why It Matters
airplane has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] airplane is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]
Entities named for airplane include Aerosmith[41], a rock band[42], founded in 1969[43].