Air is flying straight into the wing. That's going to almost so add to the Bernoulli effect. And that plane is going to pop. That's why it doesn't slowly gain altitude. That plane changes the angle to the air and it flies high above the ground. It also reduces the acoustic footprint of the takeoff. The higher it can get the fastest, the less influence that sound is going to have on houses or other things in the runway path.
What is the rocket equation? How do airplanes fly? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice go through some things you thought you knew about how airplanes fly, x-rays, and how to fuel a rocket.
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