While the engineering behind modern aircraft is incredibly complicated, the basic concepts behind getting airborne is simpler than you might think. “So the fundamentals, the physics of flight, deal ...

Airplanes achieve flight through the interplay of four fundamental forces: lift, thrust, drag, and gravity. Wings generate lift due to air pressure differences, while engines provide thrust to ...

Without the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag, aircraft would be unable to fly, wind turbines would not spin, and countless other machines that we depend on every day would not work. What, exactly, ...

Kirsten Hibbard from the Challenger Learning Center was in the TV5 studio to show us an experiment that helps explain the forces involved with the flight of airplanes. The same forces that help real ...

On today’s episode of “For Science!” we explore the concepts of Thrust, Lift, and Drag by conducting the ring airplane experiment. Cut the paper into 1 inch strips. Using two strips, tape them ...

Even in 1800, it was understood—by at least one person, a certain George Cayley—that two forces, weight and drag, were antagonistic to flight and that there must be two corresponding forces to ...