191:"Notability" as used herein is not a reflection of an aircraft's "worth". A particular aircraft may have been used for hundreds of life-saving rescues, been involved in a famous military action, or belonged to a particularly colourful local character, while still not being notable enough to ensure sufficient verifiable source material exists to create an article in an
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This guideline provides notability criteria for all types of machines and devices (other than models and toys) that utilise aerostatic or aerodynamic lift to fly: heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air, powered and unpowered, piloted and remotely-piloted, fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft are all
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825:- Уголок неба "Sky Corner" - detailed directory of military (and some civil) types and subtypes with the emphasis on Russian and Soviet aircraft. Main text in Russian, some pages available in English in abbreviated versions.
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separate article for subtypes, much less individual airframes, and it is often the case that despite the aircraft type being manifestly notable, a derivative article from it is not. Exceptions do, of course, exist.
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reliable. An analysis of the manner of treatment is crucial as well; Slashdot.org for example is reliable, but postings to that site by members of the public on a subject do not share the site's imprimatur.
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become warranted if the parent article grows to the point where it may be split to a new article, and notability can be demonstrated using the criteria below. This should occur as a top down process – see
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cover aircraft currently under development as well as abandoned projects and design studies where the resulting aircraft would have been covered by these guidelines had it been completed.
806:– extensive database of types from around the world and throughout time. Little coverage of lighter-than-air types. Site is mainly in German, but most is available in English as well.
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directory of types. Note that this directory generally covers only types where there is at least one example flying somewhere in the world; historic types are generally not listed.
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811:– aerofiles.com – exhaustive list of every aircraft type and subtype produced in the United States, including many aircraft poorly documented (if documented at all) elsewhere.
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English will be manifestly notable, and any such category not in general use will need to be assessed against the policy to
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