• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I do believe those are traditionally called airships rather than aircraft or is the renaming of lighter-than-air dirigibles to “aircraft” yet another example of Silicon Valley Marketing spinning yet-another-reinventing-of-the-wheel as innovation.

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      1 year ago

      Aircraft is a general term for basically anything that flies while being supported by air pressure (wings, jets/rotors, balloons). A rocket would (generally) not be considered an aircraft because the rocket supports its own weight (it doesn’t create lift from the atmosphere around it).