Aircraft

An Aircraft is a kind of flying vehicle or technological device, intended to convey sophonts from one location to another.

• It conveys its passengers and cargo through the medium of a planetary atmosphere.
• NAFAL Spacecraft convey their passengers and cargo through the medium of vacuum.
• FTL Starcraft convey their passengers and cargo through the medium of jumpspace.
• It is a type of vehicle.

Description (Specifications)

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Basic Principles of Atmospheric Flight

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Flight vs. Spaceflight vs. Starflight

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History & Background (Dossier)

Flightless sophont species need technology to achieve flight. Whether it's creature or animal husbandry to domesticate flying riding beasts or to invent propulsive devices that allow flight through flying vehicles. With few exceptions, to reach the stars, a sophont must master the power of flight.

Expected Technological Progression of Aircraft-Spacecraft-Starcraft Development

MACRO LEVEL - FLIGHT:

• Rocketcraft → Aircraft → Spaceplane (Shuttle) → G-Carrier → Advanced G-Carrier → System Craft → Interstellar Spacecraft → Starcraft

MICRO LEVEL - DISPLACEMENT:

• Aerostat (Lighter than Air Vehicles - Airships) → Aerodyne (Heavier than Air Vehicles - Airplanes) → Spacecraft (Vacuum Ships)

MICRO LEVEL - SPEED:

• Subsonic Aircraft → Fast Subsonic Aircraft → Transonic Aircraft → Supersonic Aircraft → Hypersonic Aircraft → High Hypersonic Aircraft → NAFAL Spacecraft → FTL Starcraft

MICRO LEVEL - TYPE:

• Glider → Balloon → Airship → Ornithopter → Rocket → Fixed Wing Aircraft → Rotorcraft (Propellor Aircraft) → Jet Aircraft → Rocketcraft → Spaceplane → Spacecraft → Starcraft

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Aircraft. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science