For example, when an airplane takes off, the thrust must be greater than the drag, and the lift must be greater than the weight. If you watch an airplane take off, you’ll see the wings change ...

A talented and experienced experimental aircraft builder, he’s currently working on Scrappy, a small bush plane built to be a short take-off and landing drag racer. Scrappy started life as a ...

It's a classic aerodynamic problem: most wing shapes that perform well at high speeds by minimizing "drag" don't have ... than 38,000 lbs of thrust, accelerating the plane from 0 to 225 mph ...

Designed in the early 1950s, the Payen Pa-49 Katy had a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust ...

One of these is the Magnus effect plane ... and drag. After iterations of the build-crash-rebuild cycle, he ended up with larger motors and rudder, shorter “wings”, and a higher thrust ...

Aeroplanes rely on four different scientific forces to fly - thrust, drag, weight and lift - all of which act against each other. When they are all balanced, a plane will fly in a nice ...

Thrust: When you launch your ring glider, you “push” it in a certain direction, like the engine of an aircraft. Drag: When you launch the glider, the surrounding air is moved and carried along. This ...