Usually means: Aircraft heavier than surrounding air.
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  1. heavier-than-air: Merriam-Webster
  2. heavier-than-air: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heavier-than-air: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heavier-than-air, heavier-than-air: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heavier-than-air: Vocabulary.com
  6. heavier-than-air: Wiktionary
  7. heavier-than-air: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. heavier-than-air: Dictionary.com
  9. Heavier-than-air: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. heavier-than-air: Rhymezone
  11. heavier-than-air: FreeDictionary.org
  12. heavier-than-air: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. heavier-than-air: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (heavier-than-air)

adjective:  (of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces.
adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or using an aircraft which weighs more than the volume of air it displaces.

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