heavier-than-air craft

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   a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it

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Questions about heavier-than-air craft

What does heavier-than-air craft mean?

heavier-than-air craft means "a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it".

Is heavier-than-air craft a common word?

heavier-than-air craft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.