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Can a passenger aircraft stay still in air without moving forward at all?

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Can a passenger aircraft stay still in air without moving forward at all?

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Fixed-wing aircraft need forward motion to generate lift. With rotating-wing aircraft (like helicopters) the motion of the wing generates lift and so it can hover in air. (There is also the exceptional fixed-wing aircraft like the British \”jump-jet\” Harrier which uses vectored thrust from its single jet engine to hover and take-off vertically as well as fly backwards!

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