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The popular "equal transit time" explanation of lift says air over the top must travel farther to meet the air below at the trailing edge.
Before Spitfires and Mustangs, thousands of pilots learned to fly in these two biplanes: the de Havilland Tiger Moth 🇬🇧 and the Boeing-Stearman 🇺🇸.
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Why do your ears pop on a plane? Behind each eardrum is a small pocket of air, connected to your throat by a thin tube (the Eustachian tube). As the plane...
A wing makes lift with higher pressure below and lower pressure above.
Why do some planes have no row 13? It's superstition. Many people see 13 as unlucky, so many airlines skip it, the same way some hotels skip the 13th floor....
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