Aircraft
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Lighter than air – aerostats
- Hot air balloons
- Airship USS Akron over Manhattan in the 1930s
unmanned
- unmanned blimp at Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball
Heavier-than-air – aerodynes
Main category: Fixed-wing aircraft
- Sailplane/Glider (Rolladen-Schneider LS4)Main category: Gliders
- 1883 Gull glider
Airplanes
- The Lockheed NF-104A had rocket and air-breathing turbojet engines, shown here climbing with rocket power
- Flying boat Dornier Do X
- cockpit (Cessna 501 Citation)
- Business jet
- interieur of a modern passenger jet (Boeing 737-500)
Unmanned
- SHARK Unmanned aerial vehicle for videos (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) for military use
- large unmanned aerial vehicle to patrol international borders with videos
- A Zipline drone flying and delivering a package
Airliners
Antonov An-225 Mriya
Rotorcraft
Main category: Rotorcraft
- Sikorsky S-56
- The Mil Mi-8 is the most produced rotorcraft
Unmanned
- DJI Phantom 4 Pro used for aerial photography
- R18 drone test bombing via RKG-1600 in "Shyrokyi Lan" range
- FlyWash Drone pressure washing Marriott SFO Airport Hotel
Ground effect vehicles
- A Hoverwing
- Ground-effect vehicle Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok
Others
- "manlifter" kite in 1908
