Proposal for categories for
Aircraft:
Aircraft:
- Technology
- Propulsion
- (Pointer to Physics/Aerodynamics?)
- History
- Early Years
- WWI
- WWII
- After WWII
- Planes
- Producer1 (eg. Messerschmitt)
- TypeA? (eg. Me-109)
- SubtypeAlpha? (eg. Bf-109Getceteraadinfinitum)
- SubtypeBeta?
- TypeB?
- Producer1
(Why are there question marks after the types and subtypes?)
- I think that's a Wikipedia link id'er, that assumes anything with lower-case followed by upper case is a link. Given the intended change to names with spaces, this "feature" needs to be disabled. --Belltower
I'm surprised that lighter-than-airs are considered 'Aircraft'; they should be forked off early, nearly everything about them is different.
Embrace and Extend. --Yooden
(There are question marks becasue the words have two capital letters and therefore become subject to the autolinking rule which is a remnant from earlier wiki implementations).
Aircraft is a more general term than airplane.
In my mind what Yooden presents is really an airplane classification; lighter-than-air craft are aircraft and so deserve a place here. I would divide aircraft (by means of lift generation) into:
- lighter than air
- aerodynamic aircraft
- rockets
and probably not say much more than that here, everything else should go in a place of its own.
(The Space Shuttle is interesting as it takes off using a rocket, but lands by gliding. Also, is a parachute an aircraft? What about a parascender?)--drj
- IMO, an aircraft has to have a wing, and therefore the parascenter, using the parachute as a wing qualifies, where a balloon or standard parachute would not.--mike dill
IMHO this is the place to do the categorizitaion(sp!); there's not much
above aircraft. So we have:
Aircraft:
- History
- Early Years
- WWI
- WWII
- After WWII
- Lighter-than-Air
- Technology
- Dirigibles
- Technology
- Zeppelins
- Non-Rigids
- Balloons
- Fixed-Wings Aircrafts
- Technology
- Propulsion
- Piston-driven
- Turbine
- Jet
- Rockets
- (Pointer to Physics/Aerodynamics?)
- Rotary-Wings Aircrafts
- Technology
- (Pointer to Physics/Aerodynamics?)
- Propulsion
- Misc. Aircrafts (all Pointers?)
- Ballistic Missiles
- Parachute/Paraglider?
- Ekranoplanes
- Hovercrafts
- Individual Crafts
- Producer1 (eg. Messerschmitt)
- TypeA? (eg. Me-109)
- SubtypeAlpha? (eg. Bf-109Getceteraadinfinitum)