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  2. Airplane - Wikipedia

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    An airplane (North American English), an aeroplane (British English), or a plane (informal), is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. [1] Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations.

  3. Plane - Wikipedia

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    Plane or planes may also refer to: Biology. Plane (tree) or Platanus, wetland native plant; Planes, marsh crabs in Grapsidae; Bindahara phocides, the plane butterfly ...

  4. Plane (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional space or flat surface that extends indefinitely. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space. When working exclusively in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, so the Euclidean plane refers to the ...

  5. Aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is the most produced aircraft in history.. An aircraft (pl.: aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or the dynamic lift of an airfoil, [1] or, in a few cases, direct downward thrust from its engines.

  6. Euclidean planes in three-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    A plane segment or planar region (or simply "plane", in lay use) is a planar surface region; it is analogous to a line segment. A bivector is an oriented plane segment, analogous to directed line segments. [a] A face is a plane segment bounding a solid object. [1] A slab is a region bounded by two parallel planes.

  7. Plane (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Craftsman No. 5 jack plane A hand plane in use. A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power tools used for the same types of larger tasks, but are unsuitable for fine-scale planing, where a miniature hand plane is used.

  8. Jet aircraft - Wikipedia

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    McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of Continental Airlines is an example of a trijet configuration. A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.

  9. Vertical and horizontal - Wikipedia

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    In particular, a plane tangent to a point on the equator intersects the plane tangent to the North Pole at a right angle. (See diagram). Furthermore, the equatorial plane is parallel to the tangent plane at the North Pole and as such has claim to be a horizontal plane. But it is. at the same time, a vertical plane for points on the equator.