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The document discusses airplanes and their history. It describes that the Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903. Airplanes come in different sizes and shapes and are used for transportation of goods and people as well as recreation and military purposes.

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Aeroplane

The document discusses airplanes and their history. It describes that the Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903. Airplanes come in different sizes and shapes and are used for transportation of goods and people as well as recreation and military purposes.

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Aeroplane" redirects here.

For other uses, see Airplane (disambiguation) and Aeroplane


(disambiguation).

North American P-51 Mustang, a World War II fighter aircraft

The first flight of an airplane, the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-300 taking off from New York JFK Airport

An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust
from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing
configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation of goods
and people, military, and research. Worldwide, commercial aviation transports more than four billion
passengers annually on airliners[1] and transports more than 200 billion tonne-kilometers[2] of cargo
annually, which is less than 1% of the world's cargo movement.[3] Most airplanes are flown by a pilot on
board the aircraft, but some are designed to be remotely or computer-controlled such as drones.

The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as "the first sustained and
controlled heavier-than-air powered flight".[4] They built on the works of George Cayley dating from
1799, when he set forth the concept of the modern airplane (and later built and flew models and
successful passenger-carrying gliders).[5] Between 1867 and 1896, the German pioneer of human
aviation Otto Lilienthal also studied heavier-than-air flight. Following its limited use in World War I,
aircraft technology continued to develop. Airplanes had a presence in all the major battles of World War
II. The first jet aircraft was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland
Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful commercial jet, was in
commercial service for more than 50 years, from 1958 to at least 2013.

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