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Ask an Explainer - Forces Of Flight

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Q: How do paper planes fly?
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Forces of Flight
Q: What are differences between an aircraft and spacecraft?
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Forces of Flight
Q: How does the force life affect the propellers of a helicopter or gyro-copter? Could you also tell me what the Bernouli principle is and how lift affects it?
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Forces of Flight
Q: What is the relationship between acceleration and velocity?
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Forces of Flight
Q: How do birds fly?
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Forces of Flight
Q: What does a= f/m mean? Who found it?
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Forces of Flight
Q: Do forces always result in motion?
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Forces of Flight
Q: Why must force be applied to a paper aircraft in order for it to fly?
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Q: Why must a paper airplane rely on altitude and gravity?
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Forces of Flight
Q: How does potential energy change to kinetic energy?
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Forces of Flight

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