generating drag. Basically, when it's time for the plane to slow to a stop, the thrust reversers use the very air the turbine is pulling in to equalize its rotation and slow its forward thrust.

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Caitlin Gibbons, Assistant Education Manager of Classroom Programs at Discovery Lab said, "We have got coffee filters, we have got these paper straws ... weight, thrust, and drag, aerodynamics ...

Dawn Dunlop has flown dozens of different airplanes, from the nimble F-15E ... in 1853—and correctly identified lift, drag and thrust as the main forces to be mastered for powered flight.

Once safely above stall speed, two big wingtip propellers take over and the smaller ones fold back to reduce drag. It’s only ... you just might get a better airplane. A paper presented to ...

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A German man has just finished a very impressive Paper Airplane Machine Gun, or a Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole, which just sounds so much cooler. It actually takes a stack of paper ...

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we'd read the papers and then we'd used those papers to have a paper-plane-building competition and seen who could fly their plane the furthest. "We were bored stiff, frankly, and the devil ...

Jillian Bell’s feature directorial debut centers on a nerdy teenager who hires a stripper for a sexual education, but the movie favors modesty over vulgarity. By Natalia Winkelman This movie ...