How airplanes generate lift 11 Articles

by Dave Jackson

35 years before I became an aircraft mechanic, I asked myself this same question. My friends and I finally decided that some serious magic is involved. Today, watching a 747 rise off the runway is still a magical sight. ...read more

by BourneCainDelta

Pressure forces and Shear forces are the ones which are resolved and result in the main forces acting on the aircraft. Lift and Drag due to the Pressure forces and Drag due to the Shear Forces which cause a "Tugging" actio...read more

by Emo Roxas333

Airplanes use a mixture of science, construction of the wing, and the engine to generate lift. But how does science, architecture, and materials result in finding out how airplanes get lift? First of all, the science...read more

by Steve Lussing

It should be no mystery to the average high school student today just how airplanes get off the ground and stay that way. When we were kids we thought that it was the air pushing under the wings that made the airplane stay...read more

by Chris C

OK, having read the other articles in this category, I have to respond. Some of the writers are completely WRONG in what they have written and others are right on. I am qualified to respond to this subject based on year...read more

by Gideon Azeh

Aircraft Design We wish to assist the push force on airplanes and reduce the noise pollution they contribute to industrial waste. The propellers of airplanes are driven by engines running on hydrocarbon fuels. We wish ...read more

by Eric Foster

I have read the other articles on this topic and some have good information and others just are out to lunch. Let us start with the man who enabled us to fly Bernoulli. I will summarize his principle which is that as a f...read more

by Hakimuddin Patanwala

according to Bernoulli's principle when a fluid move with a constant velocity an suddenly it experiences a change in the area (or space ) to moves than the velocity of the fluid will be changed. this velocity will increase...read more

by Mamoon Riaz

How aeroplanes generate lift? Body moves from high pressure to low pressure. The air above the wing has high velocity as compared to the velocity of air below the wing. As pressure and velocity is inverse in relation to e...read more

by Sebastian-

Airplanes generate lift because of the shape of their wings and the air moving past them. The bottom of the wing is flat air moves directly past it with very few interference. The top of the wing on the other hand is curve...read more

by Ronen Atour-Gad Yehiav

... The shape of the wing has very little with creating lift. The shape is important with regards to the CHARACTERISTICS of the lift created, because not all lift is the same... The shape of the wing, and particularly ...read more