Things You Thought You Knew – Up, Up, and Away!
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The Bernoulli Effect of Flying an Airplane
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.
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