Airfoil Project - Research Paper
Submitted by on January 1, 2000
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Every day, across the world, thousands of planes take off from airports and travel great distances in short amounts of time, saving time and money for many people and businesses. We use planes to sit mail, packages, luggage, and people. Without flight, the world’s transportation would be a lot slower than it is now. But what are those massive planes made of and how do they lift themselves into the sky? How do they fly great distances without falling out of the sky?
The reason planes don’t tumble out of the sky is because there are four forces acting on airplanes while they are in flight that keep it in flight. There are other forces, but these are the ones that control its flight path. The first of these forces is lift. Lift is what it sounds like, it’s the force that keeps the plane in the air. This force pushes the plane upwards and usually keeps planes in flight.
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