| THE SCIENCE BEHIND FLIGHT - THE TAKEOFF PHASE OF FLIGHT | ||
We owe our better understanding of the principles of lift today to the research and insight of a Swiss physicist named Daniel Bernoulli. Bernoulli never heard of an aircraft (he lived in the 18th century), but generated his thinking by studying another fluid – water. Using water as his testing medium, Bernoulli found a very interesting and repeatable phenomena – he found that as the speed of a fluid increases in a tube (i.e. water or air) the pressure it exerts on the sides of the tube actually decreases. |
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