{"id":97835,"date":"2024-07-31T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/guide-alternative-military-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:00:12","slug":"not-a-bird-not-a-plane-a-quick-guide-to-super-alternative-military-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=97835","title":{"rendered":"Not A Bird &amp; Not A Plane: A Quick Guide To Super Alternative Military Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    When is a plane, not a plane? This question is similar to &#8220;When does a pond become a lake.&#8221; While everyone will agree that an A320 or F-22 Raptor is an airplane, disagreement and confusion arise around the margins. Even the Wright Brothers were far from the first men to &#8216;fly.&#8217; The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-balloon-flight-history\/\">first man to fly was a Frenchman in 1783 in a balloon<\/a>. Before 1903, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/first-powered-lighter-than-air-flight-history\/\">men had already achieved powered flight (airships)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/otto-lilienthal-facts-list\/\">heavier than air flight (with gliders)<\/a>. The Wright brothers achieved a very qualified world-first &#8220;sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft&#8221; &#8211; aka <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wright-flyer\/\">the first flight in an airplane<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it becomes difficult to distinguish between an airplane and a helicopter, ship, and spacecraft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,816,412,5678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-helicopter","category-military","category-v-22-osprey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97836,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97835\/revisions\/97836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}