heavier-than-air

English

heavier-than-air (not comparable)

(of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces.
- 1914, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone:
  And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird.
Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces.
- 1952, "Milestones," Time, 10 Mar.,
  Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk.

单词	heavier-than-air
释义	heavier-than-air English Adjective heavier-than-air (not comparable) (of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces. 1914, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone: And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird. Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces. 1952, "Milestones," Time, 10 Mar., Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk.
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