Talk:Aerodyne

I'll attempt some research on this, but if there's no difference between an aerodyne and a lifting body vehicle, I'll do a merge/redirect. Marasmusine 19:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Or even merge to aircraft then. Marasmusine 08:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Do not do that. As the article states, lifting bodies are a type of fixed-wing-aircraft. An aircraft is any flying machine including both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air vehicles. Presuming that the article is correctly defining "aerodyne" to begin with (and according to dictionary.com it is: Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This aer·o·dyne     /ˈɛərəˌdaɪn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[air-uh-dahyn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun any heavier-than-air aircraft deriving its lift mainly from aerodynamic forces.

Don't merge with aircraft. This page is neccesary to distinguish from aerostats. By the way, what's with the attention from an expert tag. It seems like a fine article to me.24.21.101.33 (talk) 03:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[Origin: 1905–10; back formation from aerodynamic; see dyne] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. ) then I propose the following:

How do aerodynes work?
Heavier-than-air craft achieve lift using Bernoulli's principle to create a lower pressure area above the lifting surfaces and a relatively higher pressure area under the lifting surfaces. Typically the lifting surface is a portion of the aircraft called a wing but sometimes the fusalage of the aircraft is the lifting surface resulting in a lifting body.

This concept includes classes:
 * ornithopters: a rarer type of aircraft that is neither fixed-wing, nor rotary-wing but rather achieves lift by flapping its wings vertically like a bird.
 * Rotorcraft: helicopters, autogyros, gyrodynes which achieve lift by rotating their wings (called rotors) relative to the fusalage.
 * Fixed-wing aircraft: airplanes, gliders, lifting bodies which achieve lift by moving their fusalage, and attached wings, through the air.

Waafcdr 05:49, 6 November 2007 (UTC) KeB, Waafcdr 05:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Waafcdr 06:13, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Oh, I was trying to make it too hard. KeB, Waafcdr 06:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Disambig / redirect to Aircraft
This page contains nothing sigificant about aerodynes that is not already covered in the Aircraft article. I suggest that it be repurposed as a disambiguation page, and the main content (such as it is) be deleted. Opinions? -- Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 15:22, 23 August 2008 (UTC)