WordNet
n. a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it
Usage examples of "heavier-than-air craft".
This time casual inspection was possible only from altitude, as the presence of large numbers of heavier-than-air craft was detected.
It was of all-metal construction and could out-speed many heavier-than-air craft that were considered suitable for pursuit and fighting ships.
A battery of rocket tubes were attached, and could, for short periods of time, give the craft a speed hardly equalled by the fastest of heavier-than-air craft.
It housed an assortment of heavier-than-air craft as remarkable as the ultra-modern land vehicles garaged in the basement of Doc's skyscraper headquarters.
While his brother Wilbur (1867-1912) observed, Orville Wright (1871-1948) made history's first piloted, powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air craft on December 17.
Caroline thought of her, fondly, as a little girl, playing in the grounds of the chateau as Caroline herself had once played in the last years of the old century that seemed, in this age of telephones and automobiles and heavier-than-air craft, a millennium ago.
They once said that heavier-than-air craft could never fly under their own power, and for many years it was believed that the sound barrier was so absolute, its vibrations would tear an airplane apart.