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  2. Paper plane - Wikipedia

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    The art of paper plane folding dates back to the 19th century, with roots in various cultures around the world, where they have been used for entertainment, education, and even as tools for understanding aerodynamics. The mechanics of paper planes are grounded in the fundamental principles of flight, including lift, thrust, drag, and gravity ...

  3. Tumblewing - Wikipedia

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    The Paper Airplane Guy teaches how to make the Tumbling Wing; Tumblewing instructions from sciencetoymaker.org; How to build and fly a Big Mouth type tumblewing; How to fly a tumblewing type glider; Video of Radio Controlled Airplane with tumbling wings; Video of Dihedral Magnus Effect Glider

  4. High-speed flight - Wikipedia

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    In these transonic speed ranges, compressibility causes a change in the density of the air around an airplane. During flight, a wing produces lift by accelerating the airflow over the upper surface. This accelerated air can, and does, reach supersonic speeds, even though the airplane itself may be flying at a subsonic airspeed (Mach number < 1.0

  5. Glider (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    A paper plane, paper aeroplane (UK), paper airplane (US), paper glider, paper dart or dart is a toy aircraft (usually a glider) made out of paper or paperboard; the practice of constructing paper planes is sometimes referred to as aerogami (Japanese: kamihikōki), after origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. [28]

  6. Aircraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    The Antonov An-225 had anhedral wings, which make it less stable but more manoeuvrable. With a symmetrical rocket or missile, the directional stability in yaw is the same as the pitch stability; it resembles the short period pitch oscillation, with yaw plane equivalents to the pitch plane stability derivatives. For this reason, pitch and yaw ...

  7. Flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Propulsive, aerodynamic, and gravitational force vectors acting on a space vehicle during launch. The forces acting on space vehicles are of three types: propulsive force (usually provided by the vehicle's engine thrust); gravitational force exerted by the Earth and other celestial bodies; and aerodynamic lift and drag (when flying in the atmosphere of the Earth or another body, such as Mars ...

  8. Kazakhstan's main transport prosecutor, Timur Suleimenov, told a briefing in the country's capital Astana that the plane's black box, which contains flight data to help determine the cause of a ...

  9. Aircraft flight mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft flight mechanics are relevant to fixed wing (gliders, aeroplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters) aircraft.An aeroplane (airplane in US usage), is defined in ICAO Document 9110 as, "a power-driven heavier than air aircraft, deriving its lift chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surface which remain fixed under given conditions of flight".