The struggles of the ordinary aircraft.
There is no doubt in my mind that at least once in your life you have sat and really pondered over the miracle that is modern day flight. We sit at the airport and we watch planes come and go. Scientists and engineers have explained and demonstrated the principles behind flight, yet it ceases to be anything but a miracle. When I was first informed as to how an aircraft produces lift, I was a bit lost because it went against what I had originally thought. I was told that the movement of the airfoil surface (wings) through air creates an area of lower pressure above the wing compared to that below the wing, and that the tendency of objects to move from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure is essentially what takes place when an airplane flies. I had originally thought that flight was a reaction from air hitting the under surface of the wings as they move through the air, but, as we get older we get wiser. This new found knowledge, that goes way more in depth by the way, ha...