How do planes fly?
Airplanes fly because of a physical principal discovered by a Dutch scientist named Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782). Simply generates lift because the air goes faster over the top creating a region of low pressure, and thus lift.
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Students of physics and aerodynamics are taught that airplanes fly as a result of Bernoulli's principle, which says that...More?
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The wing of a plane creates high pressure below the wing and low pressure above it, forcing the plane up. Thanks, ChaCha!
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If air speeds up the pressure is lowered. Thus a wing generates lift because the air goes faster over the top creating a regioMORE
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