Aircraft
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Lighter than air – aerostats
- Hot air balloons
- Airship USS Akron over Manhattan in the 1930s
Heavier-than-air – aerodynes
Main category: Fixed-wing aircraft
- Sailplane/Glider (Rolladen-Schneider LS4)Main category: Gliders
- 1883 Gull glider
Airplanes
- The Lockheed NF-104A had rocket and air-breathing turbojet engines, shown here climbing with rocket power
- Flying boat Dornier Do X
- cockpit (Cessna 501 Citation)
- Business jet
- interieur of a modern passenger jet (Boeing 737-500)
- SHARK Unmanned aerial vehicle for videos (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) for military use
- large unmanned aerial vehicle to patrol international borders with videos
Airliners
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Rotorcraft
Main category: Rotorcraft
- Sikorsky S-56
- The Mil Mi-8 is the most produced rotorcraft
Others
- "manlifter" kite in 1908
- A Hoverwing
- Ground-effect vehicle Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok