what kind of plane flies without wings?

Question

what kind of plane flies without wings?

Answer 1

none.



a "plane" by definition IS a wing.



a helicopter is still a plane, it has rotating wings.



a pure rocket vehicle like the lunar lander does not have wings, but it is also never called a plane.

Answer 2

Well first of supersonic aircraft like fighter jets and concorde do not have aerofoils, but they are still really wings.



Helicopters aren't planes in the first place however even if your looking at aerocraft, a helicopter still uses aerofoils, so you could argue a helicopter just has moving wings.



You can however make lift without aerofoils. If you have air moving fast enough over a rotating coloumn then it will produce lift. This is more often used for sailing as less force is required, but theorhetically a large enough coloumn and fast enough rotation and fast enough air would provide lift. However im not sure if they would still count as wings.



Another thing is if somethings in orbit is that counted as flying? If you went fast enough and didnt burn up you could stay in orbit 1 metre of the ground. All you would need is engines and nothing else. But without doing caclulations im guessing you would need to go faster than we could ever make anything go.



There is always the final 'Star Wars' approach of having things that fly for no apparant reason but then are they even planes any more?



I think no due to what the words mean, not as far as science is concerned, you could however have a flying vessel without wings (hovercraft and star wars things)

Answer 3

One with a good taste in music, I hated Wings ! Paul McArtney is a nob without John Lennon !!!

Answer 4

different than leaping out of an airplane or off some thing concerning the only way is likely considered one of the places they have with super followers in a room which you pass into donning a dishevelled healthful. The followers are adequate to enhance you off the floor and shop you flying.

Answer 5

what do u define as a plane?

princeton wordnet

airplane: an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane"

a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"

cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

travel on the surface of water

a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood; "the cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work"

make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane; "plane the top of the door"

flat: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"



i think it needs wings to be a plane

Answer 6

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

Answer 7

In principle a lifting body, in general any plane whose thrust exceeds its weight plus drag (e.g., Harrier jet in hove mode). If you want to zoom horizontally and steer, you're going to need control surfaces or you will skid through the air.

Answer 8

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Answer 9

There are no planes that dont have wings.



One thing that every one has not mentiond is that even rockets have wings Small but they have them to guide them they are called fins but they are wings. so there is not a single flying vehicle that does not have a wing.

Answer 10

a harrier jumpjet can take off and hover without the aid of its wings

Answer 11

surface plane

Answer 12

An aqua plane....sorry

Answer 13

One that's heading for earth rather more quickly than it normally would?

Answer 14

a jet rocket

Answer 15

a cruise missile

Answer 16

H hellicopter.

Answer 17

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Answer 18

a rocket

Answer 19

A MISSILE!

Answer 20

your brains

Answer 21

a helicopter! :)