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Aerofoil air currents air rises airship called airship travel albatross America Astronauts Bags of sand balloon flight balloon floats balloon rise Bats can fly Biplane built called thrust CAYLEY'S GLIDER CONCORDE Concorde concorde creates lift drag Dragonflies flapping flew flies Flight deck flight took FLYING BOATS FLYING CREATURES force frisbee fuel gases Gondola Gravity ground hang-glider Hawks glide helicopter hot-air balloon hydrogen gas insects jet engine journey keeps a plane kilometres per hour land on water launched Mach number Metal frame metres Moon moves need a push pairs of wings Paper plane Passenger travel passengers and travel Payload bay pilot plane called plane forward plane or bird POWERED FLIGHT Propeller rising current rocket rotor blades satellites seaplane sets of wings side-to-side solo flight sound 1,124 kilometres space shuttle speed of sound spin round Star Flyer steered the plane thermals travel faster tried to fly Triplane weight Wilbur Wright