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How Planes Fly: Air Pressure vs. Fluid Dynamics
Aircraft design is recursive: everything affects and impacts everything else, from materials weight and strength to airframe architecture and its mix of design factors. Additionally, the debate on the physics of how airplanes fly seems to be endless. Here, we offer a simplest, rudimentary introduction to two basic theories most often advanced as to how planes fly: (1) the traditional air pressure differential theory, and (2) the related fluid dynamics conceptualization. Air Pressure Differential Theory...
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