Rocketry is heavier than air flight. I submit we discovered it before lighter than air flight. I will hazard that I do have a nice understanding of how it works. I learned it from media like this:
I do think you’re dead wrong!
I do think you’re dead wrong!
That's not true for rockets. Rockets can fly in air, and a rocket's fins only work in air, but rockets don't have to use fins and rockets work fine in the vacuum of space. Because air is mostly irrelevant to rockets -- and rockets [in space at least] fly by principles that have nothing to do with aerodynamics -- rockets are not typically included in discussions of how "heavier-than-air flight" works.
Star Wars ships come out of space backwards and I don’t get it...