| One thing that you really need to understand before | | | | to travel under than over effectively, the air is being |
| you can build a toy plane that actually flies is what it is | | | | forced to go under the wings. When the plane is |
| that makes planes fly in the first place. Luckily, with a | | | | moving fast, enough air is being forced under the |
| little explanation, the basic scientific principles of plane | | | | wings that the plane takes off. |
| flight arent too difficult to understand. | | | | Once the plane is in the air, it can either glide using its |
| The key to flight, understandably, is the wings. Instead | | | | wings and a little forward power, turn up the forward |
| of flapping their wings like birds do, however, planes | | | | power to ascend, or turn it off to descend. A plane |
| propel themselves forwards using an engine in much | | | | can also steer left and right using a rudder on the air, |
| the same way a car does, and then rely on the shape | | | | much the same way as a boat uses one in water, and |
| of their wings to slowly lift them off the ground. | | | | go up and down faster by tilting its nose. All of these |
| But why do a planes big, flat wings lift it off the | | | | choices are the ones you see represented on a |
| ground? The answer is all to do with how the air | | | | typical toy plane remote control, and aside from the |
| travels over and under the wings. A planes wings are | | | | added computer-controlled navigation and radar |
| flatter on the bottom and more rounded on the top, | | | | systems to check the locations of other planes in a |
| which means that air takes longer to travel over the | | | | real plane, they are pretty much the same controls |
| wings than under them. The higher air speed under the | | | | that you would find there. |
| wings means that there is always more space for air | | | | |