Feel The Lift

Posted By on Apr 24, 2011 |

Experiment 1: Feel the Lift

A very simple experiment next time you are in a car allows you to feel the power of lift, and understand hour the ANGLE that a wing meets the air determines the amount of LIFT, and DRAG, produced.

 

LIFT is the UPWARDS force produced by a wing, and is the force that lifts an aeroplane from the ground.

 

DRAG is the “slow you down” force, the force that makes your bike slow down, and makes an aeroplane slow down if its engines are not powerful enough to keep it moving through the air.

To demonstrate I need a volunteer.

 

Any ideas who?


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Author: Thursten Master

Thursten, or "Thrust" as he prefers to be called, is our resident technical genius. This is not a term used lightly... he really does have a brain the size of a planet and he solves a myriad of tricky problems for us. Thrust is particularly interested in the science of flight and, unlike many large-brain academics, is very good at explaining science in terms that normal people can understand.

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