Without the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag, aircraft would be unable to fly, wind turbines would not spin, and countless other machines that we depend on every day would not work. What, exactly, ...

Even in 1800, it was understood—by at least one person, a certain George Cayley—that two forces, weight and drag, were antagonistic to flight and that there must be two corresponding forces to ...

Have you ever wondered how airplanes, despite their massive size, manage to stay in the sky? The answer lies in aerodynamics, which explains how air interacts with moving objects to generate lift, ...

The “science word of the day” is aerodynamics, and the Science Siblings used paper airplanes to explain it. Paige and Adam Jacobson recruited their friend Lincoln to demonstrate. First, they explained ...