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 ...

Who hasn't looked at an 800,000-pound passenger jet soaring through the sky and wondered how it could possibly stay up there? Ten-year-old Lucas took a break from munching his nachos at Schaumburg's ...

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 ...

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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 ...