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    Forces Acting Along The Y-Axis: Lift and Weight

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    The document discusses the key forces acting on an airplane: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift is generated by the wing via the Bernoulli principle, which causes lower air pressure above the wing. This lift counteracts the force of weight and allows the plane to fly. Thrust propels the plane forward through the air by the engines. Drag opposes the motion of the plane through the air due to disrupted airflow over the surfaces of the plane. The angle of attack of the wing affects the amount of lift generated.

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    Forces Acting Along The Y-Axis: Lift and Weight

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    The document discusses the key forces acting on an airplane: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift is generated by the wing via the Bernoulli principle, which causes lower air pressure above the wing. This lift counteracts the force of weight and allows the plane to fly. Thrust propels the plane forward through the air by the engines. Drag opposes the motion of the plane through the air due to disrupted airflow over the surfaces of the plane. The angle of attack of the wing affects the amount of lift generated.

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    The document discusses the key forces acting on an airplane: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift is generated by the wing via the Bernoulli principle, which causes lower air pressure above the wing. This lift counteracts the force of weight and allows the plane to fly. Thrust propels the plane forward through the air by the engines. Drag opposes the motion of the plane through the air due to disrupted airflow over the surfaces of the plane. The angle of attack of the wing affects the amount of lift generated.

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    Forces Acting Along The Y-Axis: Lift and Weight

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    The document discusses the key forces acting on an airplane: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift is generated by the wing via the Bernoulli principle, which causes lower air pressure above the wing. This lift counteracts the force of weight and allows the plane to fly. Thrust propels the plane forward through the air by the engines. Drag opposes the motion of the plane through the air due to disrupted airflow over the surfaces of the plane. The angle of attack of the wing affects the amount of lift generated.

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    Forces Acting along the Y-axis: Lift and Weight

    Vertical motion of an airplane, and all the associated components of different forces
    acting along the y-axis, are primarily due to the lift-weight couple. In order to fly, the
    wings of an aircraft must support the planes weight. To do so, these wings generate lift.
    Lets see how lift is created:
    1.

    Aerospace engineers design the wing of an aircraft in a manner such that the air
    flowing over it is faster than that flowing under it.

    2.

    According to the Bernoulli principle, faster-moving air has a comparatively lower


    static pressure, than slow-moving air.

    3.

    This creates a pressure differential over and under the wing; i.e. a region of low
    pressure over the wing and a region of high pressure under it.

    4.

    The area of low pressure literally sucks-in the wing under it, assisted by the high
    pressure region pushing the wing upwards.

    5.

    This vertical movement of the aircraft is due to the force of Lift.

    The following is a video showing how air flows around the wing.

    Notice how the angle of the aerofoil inside the wind tunnel, relative to the airflow, is
    steadily increased. This angle is referred to as angle of attack. The relation between
    the angle of attack and lift is directly proportional, until the pilot breaches the critical
    angle of attack, beyond which no lift is produced.

    Forces Acting along the X-axis: Thrust and


    Drag
    Aircraft need to propel forward, in order to cover horizontal distances. This propulsion is
    also required to attain a certain speed of relative airflow, necessary for the production of
    lift. Thrust must not be confused with the airspeed of an aircraft. Airspeed is
    a measure of aircraft motion through the air, while thrust is the force creating that
    forward motion relative to the remote airflow.
    Generated by aircraft engines, thrust is an airplanes primary driving force. As an
    airplane speeds through the air, resistance to its forward motion develops. This

    resistance to the motion of an aircraft, be it vertical motion (lift) or horizontal motion


    (thrust), is called drag.
    The following video depicts how an object not tuned aerodynamically, disrupts the
    airflow behind it. A similar effect takes place when an airplane, as a whole (not just the
    wing), flies through the air. This disrupted airflow represents drag.

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