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Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Fixed-Wing Aircraft in this atlas's Aerospace Vehicles category, aircraft that generate lift from wings held fixed to the airframe, driven by propellers or jet engines or flown unpowered as gliders. Belongs here: an aeroplane, airliner, fighter, bomber, seaplane or glider. Does not belong here: a helicopter or tiltrotor, gathered under Rotary-Wing and Lift. It is a family within Aerospace Vehicles and is divided into types below it where the atlas has them, with the individual vehicles of each kind, their makes and models, beneath those.

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1. Wikipedia: Fixed-wing aircraft
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is a heavier-than-air aircraft, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift
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