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  2. 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

  3. 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 ...

  4. Horseshoe vortex - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the simpler horseshoe vortex model used with a reduced effective wingspan but same mid-plane circulation provides an adequate model for the flows induced far from the aircraft. The term horseshoe vortex is also used in wind engineering to describe the flow pattern created by strong winds around the base of a tall building.

  5. Aircraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    The yaw plane translational equation, as in the pitch plane, equates the centripetal acceleration to the side force. = where (beta) is the sideslip angle, Y the side force and r the yaw rate. The moment equations are a bit trickier.

  6. Vortex lattice method - Wikipedia

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    Simulation of an airplane using Open VOGEL, an open source framework for aerodynamic simulations based in the UVLM. The Vortex lattice method, (VLM), is a numerical method used in computational fluid dynamics, mainly in the early stages of aircraft design and in aerodynamic education at university level.

  7. 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]

  8. Lift (force) - Wikipedia

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    For steady, level flight, the integrated force due to the pressure differences is equal to the total aerodynamic lift of the airplane and to the airplane's weight. According to Newton's third law, this pressure force exerted on the ground by the air is matched by an equal-and-opposite upward force exerted on the air by the ground, which offsets ...

  9. Wingtip vortices - Wikipedia

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    On landing behind an airplane the aircraft should stay above the earlier one's flight path and touch down further along the runway. [11] Glider pilots routinely practice flying in wingtip vortices when they do a maneuver called "boxing the wake". This involves descending from the higher to lower position behind a tow plane.