Airplanes and How They Fly (Revised Edition)

Duration: 14 min

Creator: McGraw Hill Text Films

Color: color

Description: Uses regular photography and animation to survey the major types of modern aircraft - propeller-driven, jet-powered, military and commercial, large and small - and to explain how an airplane is pulled through the air, how airflow lifts the plane into the air, and how the flight of the plane is controlled by rudder, elevator, and aileron.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)