Walter James Boyne
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Former director, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983–86. Author of The Leading Edge and many others.
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Airplane, any of a class of fixed-wing aircraft that is heavier than air, propelled by a screw propeller or a high-velocity jet, and supported by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings. For an account of the development of the airplane and the advent of civil aviation see history of…
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