Modern airplanes are divided into five main types:
1. Commercial Transport Planes
2. General Aviation Planes
3. Military Planes
4. Sea Planes
5. Special Purpose Planes
Commercial transport planes are large planes used for carrying passengers and sometimes cargo (also called airliners).
Four-engine jets are more powerful than most airliners. That’s because most airliners only travel 500 to 600 miles per hour or 805 to 966 kilometers per hour, and four-engine jets can travel faster and farther.
The Boeing 747 is a four-engine jet that unlike most airliners, can carry
1. 1,000 passengers
2. Less than 200 passengers
3. More than 400 passengers
4. 50 passengers
It can also carry six galleys (kitchens), twelve washrooms, and more than 47,000 gallons or 178,000 liters of fuel. In 1969, the Boeing 747 became the largest jet in the world. This airliner can fly 6,495 miles or 10,475 kilometers non-stop. That’s farther than the distance between New York City and Tokyo.
Four-engine jets are not the only kind of commercial transport planes. There are also three-engine jets and twin-engine jets.
As you probably can imagine, three-engine jets don’t travel as far as four-engine jets and need less runway to take-off and land. But some three-engine jets can carry as many passengers as four-engine jets.
Twin-engine jets are smaller than four or three-engine jets, but 90% of airliners today are twin-engine jets. Here’s a question for you:
Why do you think twin-engine jets are used the most?
1. Because they have less engine failures than three or four-engine jets
2. Because they cost less money to operate
3. Because people like the way they look
Now let’s learn a little bit about general aviation planes. Most general aviation planes have two to six seats, and one engine. General aviation planes are used for many purposes. Sometimes people use them to teach students how to fly a plane, or they are used to take pictures from a high-up view. Sometimes people use them for transportation, and sometimes people use them for enjoyment. Some farmers use them for planting seeds, checking soil erosion, and counting livestock.
Military planes, as you probably know, are planes used by the military. Most military planes are used to attack enemies on the ground or in the air. Some military planes are used to carry equipment and soldiers to bases or battlefields.
Sea planes are divided into three types:
1. Float Planes
2. Flying Boats
3. Amphibians
Float planes have big floats instead of wheels. Flying boats are shaped like the hull of a boat, so they can stay on the water. Amphibians are:
1. Shaped like frogs
2. Able to go on land and water
3. Able to fly without any wings
Special purpose planes are planes that have special purposes such as performing tricks in shows or spraying chemicals on crops. Some amphibians also have a special purpose. They are used for putting out forest fires. They fly just above the lakes and ponds and suck up water so they can later spray it on forest fires.
So, there are a lot of different types of airplanes, and as we have learned, it’s because there are a lot of different jobs for airplanes to do.
2006-12-01 01:12:17
·
answer #1
·
answered by Balaji N 2
·
0⤊
1⤋
Types Of Aeroplanes
2016-10-02 21:34:20
·
answer #2
·
answered by vanburen 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
general heavier than air aircraft that are for civil airline flying:
Airbus:
A 300
310
318
319
320
321
330
340
(soon to fly for airlines) 380
Boeing:
B 707
717
727
737
747
757
767
777 (best aircraft ;))
Lockheed:
L1011
McDonald Douglas:
MD-11
MD-10
MD-9
MD-80
MD-90
Fokker:
100
28 fellowship
50/60
70/100
Those are the major aircraft flying with airlines these days
2006-12-04 08:54:12
·
answer #3
·
answered by Boeing 777 2
·
0⤊
0⤋
Single Engine Land
Multi Engine Land
Single Engine Sea
Multi Engine Sea
Rotorcraft,
Glider
Fixed Wing
Lighter Than Air
These are the different classes and categories of aircraft
2006-12-01 19:16:26
·
answer #4
·
answered by ANSAG 2
·
1⤊
0⤋
RE:
name the different types of aeroplanes?
2015-08-01 01:57:43
·
answer #5
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
1.Heavier than air aircraft
Ex.autogyros, helicopters and gyrocopters, and conventional fixed-wing aircraft
2. Lighter than air
Ex. balloons and airships
3. Military aircraft
Ex. F-4,FA-22,P-51
4 Civil aviation
Ex.turboprops like the Beechcraft King Air
2006-12-01 16:58:04
·
answer #6
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋
Airplanes are not separated according to Type, they are in a Category meaning they are grouped according to use, or operating limitations. Example: transport, normal, utility, acrobatic, limited, restricted, and provisional.
They are further divided by Class which is a broad grouping of aircraft having similar characteristics of flight or landing. Example: Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, balloon, landplane and seaplane.
You have to have a Type rating on your certificate to fly any craft weighing 12,500 pounds or more, and all turbojet aircraft require a type rating.
2006-12-01 05:44:39
·
answer #7
·
answered by eferrell01 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
Airplanes are divided into a lot of categories by a lot of different criteria, by their role or function(transport-fighter-bomber-waterbomber-recon-airliner-business), by the number of wings(monoplane-biplane-triplane), by the shape of the wing(delta-straight-swept-elliptic), by the number and kind of engine/s(jet-piston-turboprop-rocket/mono,bi,trimotor), by the materials used(wood-metal-composites).
The distinction between military and civil planes depends by the user, for example a lot of airplanes designed as airliners are used by air forces as tankers or transports, and some military transports are used by civil cargo airlines.
For example KC-135 and B.707 are the same airplane, the future marittime patrol P-8 is a version of B.737, and Atr-42 surveyor is the marittime patrol version of regional airliner Atr-42.
So military/civil division does not really depends on the plane itself.
If you need help in classification of a particular model of airplane you can ask me, I will help you....
2006-12-01 02:31:50
·
answer #8
·
answered by sparviero 6
·
0⤊
0⤋
their are a million answers to this question; gliders, single engine, multi engine, jet. rocket, low wing high wing no wing cessna,piper, beechcraft taylercraft stinson, waco, grumman all metal, tube and fabric, wood, experimental; certified;private; commmercial; military, the list goes on, pehaps you could be more specific
2006-12-01 08:14:00
·
answer #9
·
answered by al b 5
·
0⤊
0⤋
For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/axf9z
4 days left to answer...Ok then,let's do this quickly!!.. Yes,there's quite a variety of trolls but one indisputable thing they all share in common is...Well,being rushed for time,I forgot now but I'm certain there is one thing they all share in common... ((((TTC))))..good to see you!!...
2016-04-05 06:57:32
·
answer #10
·
answered by Anonymous
·
0⤊
0⤋