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How many passengers does the biggest aeroplane carry?
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Does rain affect helicopter liftoff?
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I read about a real hoverboard that actually flies. I think it was called the Zapata hoverboard. How do they make this fly?
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Why so we concentrate more on longitudinal static stability rather than the lateral and directional stability of planes?
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What are the types of movement of an aircraft?
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Whats makes an airplane loop?
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What would happen if you would put four wings on a plane?
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How do bugs fly when the wind is blowing hard for them because they are smaller then us?
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Does a pilot have to tilt plane's nose as it travels long distance to keep the plane horizontal to the plane of Earth as our Earth is a globe?
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Who was the first woman in space?
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