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Module 04 · Mind BlownWhat stuff does

How Planes Actually Fly

How Planes Actually Fly
How Planes Actually Fly · Open board

Corrects the most-repeated wrong explanation for what holds a plane up, and ends by pointing out that the two popular explanations for lift are not two competing stories. They are the same fact, said twice.

Before you start. You don’t need any physics for this lesson, just a memory: a hand held out of a moving car window, tilted up into the wind. If you’ve felt that, you already have the whole idea; the rest of this lesson just names what happened.

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