Questions tagged [aircraft]
Aircraft are man-made vehicles intended to operate while flying through Earth's atmosphere.
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Paper airplane physics
I am working on a game involving flying and steering a paper airplane for WP7. I want the plane to fly just like how normal paper airplanes fly (see this game for an example http://armorgames.com/play/...
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Why do spacecrafts take off with rockets instead of just ascending like an aircraft until they reach space?
I guess it's not a very educated question, but I never quite understood why spacecrafts have to shoot up and can't just reach space by simply continuing an upwards ascent like an airplane.
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time difference with airplane travel direction
a fight from east to west, (e.g. Australia melbourne to perth) takes longer than travel backwards. (west to east).
What's the reason?
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How much friction is caused by a 10x10 cm window on the side of an airplane?
Say that the airplane is going in 1000 km/h. On the side of the airplane, there is a 10x10 cm window. How much friction would this window cause. For the sake of the calculation, imagine that the ...
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Why does an airplane have more lift near the ground?
I've noticed that an airplane appears to have more lift when it's almost touching the ground then it has 100 feet or more in the air. What causes this to occur?
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What really allows airplanes to fly?
What aerodynamic effects actually contribute to producing the lift on an airplane?
I know there's a common belief that lift comes from the Bernoulli effect, where air moving over the wings is at ...
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