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Definition of Heavier-than-air
1. Adjective. Relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces.
Definition of Heavier-than-air
1. Adjective. (context: of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavier-than-air
Literary usage of Heavier-than-air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He foresaw nearly all the forms, parachute and montgolfier. but by boldly adhering
to the "heavier than air'1 principle he constructed ..."
2. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"As a consequence, the earliest conceptions of heavier-than-air flying machines
long antedate the discovery of the balloon, even the various myths and ..."
3. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"As a consequence, the earliest conceptions of heavier-than-air flying machines
long antedate the discovery of the balloon, even the various myths and ..."
4. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1919)
"IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF heavier-than-air FLYING MACHINES Circa
1500—Jean-Baptiste Dante, toward end of 15th Century, made flights with a glider ..."
5. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"If, however, an excess of 1 lb. is carried, the airship is heavier than air and
can ascend only by the aid of lifting planes and motive power. ..."
6. The Problem of Flight: A Text-book of Aerial Engineering by Herbert Chatley (1910)
"As regards the heavier than air machines, these derive their upward acceleration
from the reaction of the " momentum " of displaced air. ..."
7. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"heavier-than-air craft. Lighter-than-air craft are divided into common balloons,
kite (or station) balloons, and dirigibles. heavier-than-air craft comprise ..."
8. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1833)
"... times heavier than air. Water passes to the solid state at 32° Fahr. When it
shoots into ice, it forms, in the first place, a prism, not very regular in ..."
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