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A transportation that flies.
Airplanes!
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What is an airplane?An airplane is a fixed wing vehicle that flies through the air. Airplanes can have jet engines or a propeller driver.
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How do airplanes fly?An airplane must be in constant motion- its wings slicing through rushing air to create lift-in order to stay up; moving air is also required to steer it . In other words, a plane cannot fly without the power of its engines thrusting it through the air .
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… Also …
Small airplanes generally use piston engines, which turn propellers that push the aircraft through the air in the same way that a boat propellers push vessels through the water.
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How do wings help airplanes fly?
Airplanes are able to lift into the air and stay there because of the shape of their wings.
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An airplane wing is flat on the bottom and curved on the top.
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A plane’s engines push it forward and air divides to travel around its wings.
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The air that passes over the larger curved top moves faster than the air that passes under the flat bottom.
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The End!