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Aircraft vs Phugoid - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between aircraft and phugoid

is that aircraft is a vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift while phugoid is an aircraft motion where the vehicle pitches up and climbs, increasing speed, and then pitches down and descends, decreasing speed.