An aeroplane becomes airborne only when its (fixed) wings have sufficient forward airspeed for producing the lift required to balance the aircraft’s weight. Alternatively, lift can be produced by a rotor that can be seen as a large and relatively slowly rotating propeller in a (near-)horizontal plane.
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