An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.
Although rockets and missiles also travel through the atmosphere, most are not considered aircraft because they do not have wings and rely on rocket thrust as the primary means of lift.
The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called aviation. Manned aircraft are flown by an onboard pilot. Unmanned aerial vehicles may be remotely controlled or self-controlled by onboard computers. Aircraft may be classified by different criteria, such as lift type, propulsion, usage, and others.
Flying model craft and stories of manned flight go back many centuries, however the first manned ascent - and safe descent - in modern times took place by hot-air balloon in the 18th century. Each of the two World Wars led to great technical advances. Consequently the history of aircraft can be divided into five eras:
There's a cell for us all
Always I had this need to control
Never will it leave me alone
Looking into my master's dead eye
I know there's a cell for us all
This is the great summer of our kind
Brought upon us in conspiracy
Between a burning lord
And the ruminant monster called Earth
There are ghosts in this fist
Malfunction in my heart
My blood runs in the wrong direction
If I could I would rape the whole world
Machine of conceited fornication
I cut down the skies
And move through the layers of logic
I slice up reality
And here comes the light
Executing our history
Always I had this need to control
Never will it leave me alone
Look deep into this reptile eye
God shows there's hell for us all
This is the great summer of our kind
Brought upon us in conspiracy
Between a burning lord
And the ruminant monster called Earth
There are ghosts in this fist
Malfunction in my heart
My blood runs in the wrong direction
If I could I would rape the whole world
Machine of conceited fornication
Who gave birth to this disease?
What feeds the demons in my blood?
Sick cannibal melancholy
Who blew this freezing wind my way?
Is this my love supreme?
Sweet whorish machinery
The forthcoming time
- Ages in darkness
Lights out, everyone!
We sleep together
- Ready for abortion
I would have died in your womb
How could we forget,
Who gave birth to this disease?
Shooting Heaven down - lying worthless at our feet
Spiritual defective world order
Defective world order
The forthcoming time
- Ages in darkness
Lights out, everyone!
We sleep together
- Ready for abortion
Did something break in your chest?
You're talking constantly
Like those condemned to death
To restrain reality
Volcanoes ejaculate
As you rape yourself
Come, let's release the hate
And blast the hiding shell
We live at the border of the known world
Like lizards we crawl the monstrous wall
Erase that golden day
It becomes nothing
Nothing is real but these hands
Clutching the darkness of the winter ahead
The endless winter ahead
Erase that golden day
It becomes nothing in these hands
Let's praise the pain in your chest
That was your fate
Evolution at it's best
Your altered state
We live at the border of the known world
My eyes are learning how to see
Been away in darkness for so long
Travelled night and day to get through
Get into reality where they belong
Submit to the ray of light
Subside in the alternate frame
Conceal your deepest thoughts
Conceive your eyes as a sky-high flame
My ears are learning how to hear
Been away in silence for so long
Listened to an endless quiet scream
Now even the wind blows a flighty song
Submit to the blasting sound
Subside in the alternate song
Conceal your deepest thoughts
Believe your senses - imagination might be wrong
Live in the world from within
Step out of the deep black shade
Let your senses sustain...
Caught in a changeable world
Rooted in denying doubt
Constantly exposed in every direction
Through your senses
Live in the world from within
Step out of the deep black shade
Let your senses sustain...
My skin is learning how to feel
Been away in numbness for so long
Embracing all - unable to touch
Now every brush makes me feel strong
Submit to the fragile flesh
Subside in the alternate brush
Conceal your deepest thoughts
Deceive your senses in reality's mush
Caught in a changeable world
Rooted in denying doubt
Constantly exposed in every direction
All-embracing urkraft
Unknown to my face
All-destructive death craft
Eternal cosmic slaughter
Cold, so cold
This gift from the ancient primate
Was only lies and chains
Give praise to what we inherit
We hail you, AMoeba God
On the empty sky
Fortune is floating homeless by
Mocking, sobbing:
Come on, come on!
Screaming to the sky:
Come down!
Will I find truth in intensity?
Will I find truth in devotion?
Show me truth in lechery
Show me truth in love
Frailty
Creating truth in devotion
Creating truth in love
Frailty
Come on, let's breathe the air
Internal joyfull ease
Go break the graceless hope
And let your faith decease
Go on - get down and feel the mud
I? d rather kick your ass
Than testify against my blood
Why feel dignity?
Every day is just a one-night stand
We need no sympathy
Death will take care...
When free - then lost
Caught in an empty shell
We feel - through touch
Our flaming lips reveal the will
When free - then lost
Caught in an empty shell
We turn to dust
Unleash the will
Come break my fragile heartbeat
And put my face beneath your feet
Let me evanesce in eternity
Come on, let's be prepared
And make their stonehearts bleed
Go out in darkness - grope
You'll suffer and succeed
We scream - for a solution never found
Let hell break loose
Because fate has never been around
Why feel dignity
Today is just a one-night stand
I need no sympathy
Going out to paint the city black
to seek the poets of the grave
The truth is for fools
Receive the blow of the morning star
Drink up the bottle
like so many men did before you
to reveal the horrors of the lonely world
to end the tyranny of hope
Gone out to paint the city black
to let it know death
I'll pay with my friendships and pride
for this wisdom of the grave
Gone out to paint the city red
to join the slaughter
There is no innocent blood
Now lost in chaos - perfect world
Transcending truth - it signifies
The monochromatic picture of reality
Hey, you triumphant, King of Flesh!
Don't bow your head and lick the dust
Arise and blast distinction between soul and blood
Blameless incarnation
Of the human beast
Shameless since creation
Of Earth's flesh he feasts
Prince of lies - commit your fate
A fate - that we will die
Empty skull - face your hate
The hate we deny
In this spacial allocation of time
Written signs assure eternity
Still life is defined by our mortality
Fragile incarnation
Bones are screaming underneath
Hopeless domination
Blessed be the human beast
Thinking of breathing
Not trying myself
If I open my eyes it will just
Torture my senses to death
Thinking of accepting
Not trying myself
Still-standing blood
Streaming again
Dreaming of the scarlet burning
Dreaming of the hopeless waste
And if I live forever
I'll awake when you reach me here
Heat of the scarlet burning
Melts the blood in my veins
Pain from the glowing embers on my skin
The soul of our being stands rooted
Planted deep in earth's heavy soil
As the body stretches
in heavy strokes dragging Heaven down
The empty time where death is lost
and body becomes eternity
Our detest for the know-all of the sky
The merciless future
The spirit of the world is slowly turning in
Slaughter of our language within
Windless tornado eye
A word is just a sign
Signs from the soul's face
Life ends in the midst of the world
Spiritless and empty-headed
Life starts in the midst of the world
Mindnumb and soulless
Under the sun life grows
Joyfull it shows
Under the sun life withers
True self forget me not
Slaughter of our language within
Windless tornado eye
Our life is just a sign