Mitch Mignano

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Turboprop aircraft are a halfway point between propeller and jet: they
use a turbine engine similar to a jet to turn propellers. These
aircraft are popular with commuter and regional airlines, as they tend
to be more economical on shorter journeys.

Jet aircraft

A Ukrainian An-225 Mriya is the world's largest fixed-wing aircraft

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While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered,
heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17,
1903 by the Wright brothers, who had solved the age old problem of
controlling a craft in flight. The widespread adoption of ailerons made
aircraft much easier to manage, and only a decade later, at the start
of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical
for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground
positions.

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Most wide-body aircraft can carry hundreds of passengers and several
tons of cargo, and are able to travel for distances up to 17,000 km.
Aircraft in this category are the Boeing 747, Boeing 767, Boeing 777,
Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, Airbus A300/A310, Airbus A330, Airbus A340,
Airbus A380, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, McDonnell Douglas DC-10,
McDonnell Douglas MD-11, Ilyushin Il-86 and Ilyushin Il-96.

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Supersonic jet aircraft

Supersonic aircraft, such as military fighters and bombers,
Concorde, and others, make use of turbines (often utilizing
afterburners), that generate the huge amounts of power for flight
faster than the speed of the sound. Flight at supersonic speed creates
more noise than flight at subsonic speeds, due to the phenomenon of
sonic booms. This limits supersonic flights to areas of low population
density or open ocean. When approaching an area of heavier population
density, supersonic aircraft are obliged to fly at subsonic speed.

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Aviation is the activity involving man-made air-borne flying devices
(aircraft), including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies
involved with them.

Many cultures have built devices that travel through the air, from
the earliest projectiles such as stones and spears. the boomerang in
Australia, the hot air Kongming lantern, and kites. There are early
legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and later,
somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear,
such as the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887), Eilmer of
Malmesbury (11th century), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu
Lourenço de Gusmão (1685-1724).

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On an aircraft with a pilot and copilot, or instructor and trainee, the
aircraft is made capable of control without the crew changing seats.
The most common arrangement is two complete sets of controls, one for
each of two pilots sitting side by side, but in some aircraft (military
fighter aircraft, some taildraggers and aerobatic aircraft) the dual
sets of controls are arranged one in front of the other. A few of the
less important controls may not be present in both positions, and one
position is usually intended for the pilot in command (e.g., the left
"captain's seat" in jet airliners). Some small aircraft use controls
that can be moved from one position to another, such as a single yoke
that can be swung into position in front of either the left-seat pilot
or the right-seat pilot (i.e. Beechcraft Bonanza).