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A fixed-wing aircraft is a kind of aircraft. An aircraft is a machine that can fly, but is heavier than air. Fixed-wing aircraft are sometimes called airplanes, aeroplanes or sometimes just "planes". All fixed-wing aircraft have wings that use forward airspeed to generate lift.[1] Gliders are fixed-wing aircraft that do not have engines.[2]
Fixed-wing aircraft fly between many cities all over the world, carrying people and cargo. Big cities usually have an international airport, where large fixed-wing airliners operate. Airbus and Boeing are the two biggest makers of large airliners.
Statistics show that riding in a plane is safer than driving in a car.[3]
- ↑ David Anderson; Scott Eberhardt. "How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift". The Aviation History Online Museum. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Susan Meredith, How Do Aircraft Fly? (New York, NY: Chelsea Clubhouse, 2010), p. 18
- ↑ Flying still safer than driving, even in wake of Sept. 11[permanent dead link]