Airplanes: The Principles of Flight

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Uses animation and live-action photography to explain the forces which act upon an airplane in flight. Lift, force, gravity, and drag are explained in relation to rotary wing, conventional fixed wing, and jet wing aircraft; and each type is shown in flight.

Demonstrates the aero-dynamic principles of flight. Explains the four forces which control flight--lift, thrust, gravity and drag.

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