Today we learned how airplane wings stay in the air.  By making wings out of paper we demonstrated that the wing splits the airstream creating two air streams; one above the wing and one below the wing.  The top of the wing is longer making the air travel faster.  This creates a low-pressure vacuum above the wing pulling the aircraft upward.  See the assignment/lab, pictures, and video below.

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15.03.05 hands on science grade 6 – flight – Wing shape lift assignment

Lakelyn and Mr. Ewert explain airplane wings

Bill Nye the Science Guy – Flight