Template:Aircraft types (by method of thrust and lift)

Types of aircraft by methods of thrust and lift

	Aerostat	Aerodyne
	Lift: Lighter than air gas	Lift: Fixed wing	Lift: Unpowered rotor	Lift: Powered rotor
Unpowered free flight	(free) Balloon	Glider	(None - no lift)	(None - see note 2)
Tethered or towed	Moored balloon	Kite	Rotor kite	(None - see note 2)
Powered	Airship	Aeroplane, Ornithopter etc	Autogyro	Helicopter, Gyrodyne

Note 1: A tiltwing or tiltrotor aircraft functions as an aeroplane during normal (horizontal) flight and as helicopter during low-speed flight.

Note 2: For full-size aircraft with powered rotors the rotor is normally tilted to achieve thrust (i.e. a helicopter). Some toys (e.g. Balloon helicopter) do have a powered rotor with no means to tilt the rotor to produce horizontal thrust.

Note 3: Ground effect vehicles and hovercraft are not included in the table, nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. Coleopter, Flying bedstead, Avrocar , Flettner airplane and balloon-wing hybrids such as the Kytoon, Hybrid airship and Hybrid moored balloon).

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