Aircraft

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An aircraft is any machine supported for flight in the air by buoyancy or by the dynamic action of air on its surfaces, especially powered airplanes, gliders, and helicopters.<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aircraft</ref> Aircraft range in size and can be both lighter or heavier than the medium they move through. These machines have [[evolution|evolved]] rapidly since their inception, from the 1903 Wright Flyer to the latest Boeings and Airbuses that zip between continents.<ref>http://www.globalaircraft.org/history_of_aviation.htm</ref>

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File:Wright_Flyer_Kitty_Hawk.jpg|From a 120-ft (36-[[Metric system|m]]) hop…
File:Boeing-777-200lr2.jpg|…to a 10,000-mi (16,000-km) one.
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==Conspiracies involving aircraft==
Given that modern aircraft are usually very sturdy and quite safe, there is usually an uproar of some sort when one "decides" to disappear, such as {{wpl|Swissair Flight 111||.}} Despite the fact that such phenomena are often attributed to pilot error,<ref>http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/1997/news.release.970220.html</ref> to design oversights,<ref>{{wpa|United flight 585}}</ref><ref>{{wpa|Turkish Airlines Flight 981}}</ref> to ground-operations screw-ups,<ref>{{wpa|American Airlines Flight 191}}</ref><ref>{{wpa|Air Canada Flight 143}}</ref> to inclement weather,<ref>{{wpa|Delta 191}}</ref> and/or to freaky coincidences,<ref>{{wpa|2002 Überlingen mid-air collision}}</ref><ref>{{wpa|Tenerife airport disaster}}</ref> some conspiracists claim that the [[United States|US]] government (itself an obscure conspiracy based in North America) shoots down such flights for some nefarious, nebulous reason (which, needless to say, tends to vary based on which crank you're asking) and/or that the people that actually do these investigations, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), purposefully [[Coverup|cover things up]] so that we innocents don't know the [[truth]].<ref>http://www.defraudingamerica.com/ntsb_index.html</ref> 

One of the most popular conspiracy theories involving aircraft right now involves [[chemtrails]]: the perpetrators allegedly spray population-control/mind-control/geo-engineering chemicals all over the world under the guise of air travel and freight operations.<ref>http://educate-yourself.org/ct/</ref> Though other theories involve more direct things such as [[Bert Schlossberg|KAL Flight 007]], [[TWA Flight 800]] and [[9/11|United Airlines Flight 93 and 175, and American Airlines Flights 11 and 77]].

A particularly odd conspiracy theory is that aircraft are actually "sky [[demon]]s", a [[Not even wrong|rather]] [[Fringe|obscure]] bit of [[Religion|religiously]]-inspired [[woo]].<ref>For a dissection of this level of [[fractal wrongness]] which gives the topic exactly the level of seriousness it merits (i.e. none), see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhibN89WJtI World of Batshit - #1: Sky Demons].</ref>

For the very real '''airplane game''' conspiracy/con, see [[pyramid scheme]].

==See also==
*[[Aurora (aircraft)]]
*[[Black helicopters]]
*[[Unidentified flying object]]

==References==
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Categories: Aircraft, Transport