Airplane ain't magic(flying principle) - " You need no warlock to make it fly"

Flying spell chanting: isanchanté frërantalè, pćhrumeosomtobà dróntarecrypto rechiawe flyèè gluendrontótó chintalè antoineconte iluvpizza........

Hmm!, maybe that would work, cause I have come to see more strange happenings in the world, maybe you've heard of Marie Antoinette Riana Graharani, popularly known as The sacred Riana, that girl always get me thinking........well, flying an airplane doesn't require any spell or sacrifice, lol.... They fly on basic physical principle which I'm going to analyze in this article.

"Fuck yea!, I am a warlock without magic"

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BASIC PRINCIPLE IN WHICH AN AIRPLANE FLIES - HOW THRUST IS BEING GENERATED

You've one way or the other observed an airplane moving very fast on a runway suddenly begins to fly. Oh my goodness!, what type of magic is this?, what lifted the plane?, the inventors must be a witch.....yea, you are right, they are a witch, more specifically, they are a scientific witch.....magic as they say, works on principle, so also scientific magic works on physical principle you can easily see or understand.

Oh shit!, I'm gonna turn you to a witch....oh! sorry, a scientific witch

The Wright brothers who invented the first airplane generated their thrust(upward shoot) on the airplane applying two basic scientific principle;

• Newton's third law - Isaac Newton
• Bernoulli's principle - Daniel Bernoulli

Hey!, relax man, I swear I'm gonna explain...let me start from here, the two basic devices that aids or generates the lift of the airplane are the Wing and the Engine.

The Engine

The engine is a device that burns a fuel and subject the gas formed from the burnt fuel backward from the airplane and therefore the engine moves forward.....oh! Maybe I'm speaking Chinese......This brought us to the Newton's third law which says "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"

For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction ~ Newtonian's third law of motion

Have you ever tried letting the air in an inflated balloon go, believe me, you will understand better.

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You will observe that as the air is moving out of the balloon, the balloon will be forced to move opposite to the direction the air is moving at any particular point.

oh! no that's true, balloon flies when releasing air

Yes, Newtonian third law explains that as the air is been forced out of the balloon, there will be an equal but opposite direction force to move the balloon forward. Or maybe you've observed a gun shot before,

oh! sorry nobody ain't gonna wait hearing a gun shot....jenny, run for your liiiiiife.

During gun shot the shooter and the gun always observes a backward force when the bullet moves forward (recoil of a gun)....the action of the bullet triggered a reaction on the gun and the shooter, but now in the opposite direction (did I see Newton's third law there?, oh yes I did). Also, observing a moving rocket says it all. The engine of a rocket subjects a combusted gaseous fuel downward to make the rocket move upward. So also is the engine of a airplane which propel a combusted fuel backward at high speed so, the airplane could move forward at high speed but not flying yet.

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Airplane Wing - And now the greatest magical device

Maybe at this point we will require a blood sacrifice.....eww! thank to the gods, they have accepted a burnt fuel sacrifice instead

The thrust or flight is now generated by the wings. How?. The generation of thrust by the wing is base on the two principles listed above (Newton's and Bernoulli's). The wing of a airplane is not really in a straight form with the plane, it is inclined facing slightly upward at the frontal part and downward at the backward path.

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The slightly upward displaced wings at the frontal part of the now fast moving airplane tends to allow more incoming air underneath. Due to the downward bending of the airplane wing from the frontal to the backward part of the wing, the incoming air is then forced downward by the wing. As a result of the action of the air downward, the air will then generate an opposite reaction thrust or force on the plane to lift it upward(application of Newton's third law), there we go, the plane then begins to fly.
NB: it must be noted that the speed of the airplane also plays a vital row in flying, in such a way that if the engine do not generate enough speed for the plane to move against the air, the air therefore wouldn't have enough force to give the airplane lifting reaction(thrust)

The second principle which allows flying is the Bernoulli's principle.

In a steady airflow of constant energy, the velocity of air increases with a decrease in pressure and vise versa ~ Bernoulli's principle

This principle is due to the fact that there is a high pressure below the wing of the plane than above the wing. How is this pressure difference formed?. If you look at the wing diagram above carefully, you will observe slight curvature above the wing, this curvature has a vital role to play. An incoming air when in contact with the wing will split into to direction, some of the air will move above the wing, while some will move below the wing. The air moving below the wing will have more pressure due to the slight inclination of the wing, as a result of the force they exact on the surface area of the wing below. The air moving above will not be able to exact more pressure on the wing surface because of the curvature and inclination of the wing slightly downward. As a result of the pressure difference(high pressure above and low pressure below), the wing then generates the planes lift. The lift is generated because of the extreme pressure of air below the wing which forces the plane upward.

Damn!, it's really flying..... I'm gonna tell my mom

• How does the plane now stand still in air and keep its forward momentum?
• How does it changes direction?
• How can it descend from air to the ground?

Oh shit!, I need more powers

You are welcome reading, the unanswered questions are going to be discussed in the next post. If you have anything to say or ask, you can comment below.

Thank you

The sciencewitch @alumhydro

Re-edited and reposted....... if you've gain something from this class, use your thumb