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The biggest aircraft currently in service is the Antonov An-225 (Ukrainian), while the fastest currently in production is the Mikoyan MiG-31 (Russian).

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The project is called the Silent Aircraft Initiative, but production models will not be available until around 2030.

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The design and planning process, including safety tests, can last up to four years for small turboprops, and up to 12 years for aircraft with the capacity of the A380.

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The majority of aircraft, however, also need an airport with the infrastructure for maintenance, restocking, refueling, and the loading and unloading of crew, cargo, and/or passengers.

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Large aircraft have a strong impact on the environment, compared with other commonly used vehicles.

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The flight tests continue until the aircraft has fulfilled all the requirements.

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The term also embraces aircraft with folding wings that are intended to fold when on the ground.

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In 1906, he flew the first fixed-wing aircraft in Europe, the 14-bis, of his own design.

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Small models and mockups of all or certain parts of the aircraft are then tested in wind tunnels to verify the aerodynamics of the aircraft.

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Other aviators with less knowledge make their aircraft using pre-manufactured kits, assembling the parts into a complete aircraft.

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Most aircraft are constructed by companies with the objective of producing them in quantity for customers.

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Due to the high costs, limited areas of use and low demand, supersonic aircraft are no longer used by major airlines.

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On the side of the allies, the ace with the highest number of downed aircraft was Renй Fonck of France.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University have been designing delta-wing aircraft that are 25 times more silent than current craft and can be used for military and commercial purposes.

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Experimental rocket-powered aircraft were developed by the Germans as early as World War II, although they were never mass produced by any power during that war.

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Quieter aircraft are becoming more and more necessary due to the increase in air traffic, particularly over urban areas, as noise pollution is a major concern.

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When the design has passed through these processes, the company constructs a limited number of these aircraft for testing on the ground.

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Two necessities for all fixed-wing aircraft are air flow over the wings for lifting of the aircraft and an open area for landing.

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Leonardo da Vinci drew an aircraft in the fifteenth century.

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Rocket aircraft are not in common usage today, although rocket-assisted takeoffs are used for some military aircraft.

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Some aircraft use fixed wings to provide lift only part of the time, and may or may not be referred to as fixed-wing.

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First developed in England and Germany in 1931, jet aircraft make use of turbines to create thrust.

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The turbine or the jet engine was in development in the 1930s; military jet aircraft began operating in the 1940s.

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The Boeing X-43 is an experimental scramjet with a world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft—Mach 9.6, or nearly 7,000 miles per hour.

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The later North American X-15 (U.S.) was another important rocket plane that broke many speed and altitude records and laid much of the groundwork for later aircraft and spacecraft design.

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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.

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Gliders or sailplanes are aircraft designed for unpowered flight.

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In Canada, the public agency in charge and authorizing the mass production of aircraft is Transport Canada.

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First seen by generals and commanders as a "toy," the aircraft proved to be a machine of war capable of causing casualties to the enemy.

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During this process, the objectives and design specifications of the aircraft are established.

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Wars in Europe, in particular World War I, served as initial tests for the use of the aircraft as a weapon.

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Computers are used by companies to draw, plan, and do initial simulations of the aircraft.

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The aircraft is the second fastest method of transport, after the rocket.

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Small aircraft can be designed and constructed by amateurs as homebuilts.

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The production of such parts is not limited to the same city or country; in the case of large aircraft-manufacturing companies, such parts can come from all over of the world.

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Single-engined aircraft are capable of reaching 109 miles per hour or more at cruise speed.

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The design problems for supersonic aircraft are substantially different than those for subsonic aircraft.

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Both ramjet and scramjet aircraft are mostly in the experimental stage.

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The Wright Brothers are commonly credited with the invention of the aircraft, because theirs was rather the first sustainable and well documented flight.

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The first fixed-wing aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight was the rocket-powered Bell X-1 (U.S.).

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SpaceShipOne is the most famous current rocket aircraft, being the test vehicle for developing a commercial sub-orbital passenger service; another rocket plane is the XCOR EZ-Rocket; and there is of course NASA's Space Shuttle.

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Smaller and older propeller aircraft make use of reciprocating internal combustion engines that turn a propeller to create thrust.

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First the construction company uses drawings and equations, simulations, wind tunnel tests and experience to predict the behavior of the aircraft.

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Supersonic aircraft can reach speeds faster than sound.

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One drawback, however, is that they are noisy; this makes jet aircraft a source of noise pollution.

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Self-powered aircraft were designed and constructed by Clйment Ader.

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When approaching an area of heavier population density, supersonic aircraft are obliged to fly at subsonic speed.

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Jet aircraft were first developed by both the British and Germans during this period.

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Jet aircraft possess high cruising speeds (300 to 400 mph) and high speeds for take-off and landing (93 to 155 mph).

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Commercial jet aircraft can reach up to 559 miles per hour.

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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.

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Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers and recreational aircraft, to large airliners and military cargo aircraft.

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The Boeing 727 was another widely used passenger aircraft and the Boeing 747 was the biggest commercial aircraft in the world until 2005, when it was surpassed by the Airbus A380.

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After the First World War, aircraft technology continued to develop.

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Sir George Cayley, the inventor of the science of aerodynamics, was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as 1803, and he built a successful passenger-carrying glider in 1853.

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Wide-body aircraft, such as the Airbus A340 (French) and Boeing 777 (U.S.), can carry hundreds of passengers and several tons of cargo and are able to travel for distances up to 10,563 miles.

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The parts are sent to the main plant of the aircraft company where the production line is located.

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Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers and recreational aircraft, to large airliners and military cargo aircraft.

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