![]() If that wasn’t the case then the aircraft would not be able to fly straight. No matter the speed, An airplane’s wing generates lift equal to its weight. Heavy passenger planes like the Airbus A380 needs high Angles to generate more lift and smaller Military jets requires less. ![]() They are crafted with a specific Angle of attack. Wings might look level, but they are not. The Angle of attack- the Angle with which the wing meets the oncoming air- is what makes it possible to deflect the air. So the faster you go the more air is deflected and the more lift is created. The job of the wings is to deflect the air down, thereby keeping the Airplane up. You can see it in the Joker smile trail left by the aircraft when it moves through clouds. A plane stays up in the air by pushing the air downwards. So how does a plane fly? To put it plainly. How a plane flies, the conditions needed for stable flight and how the Angle of attack comes into play. I didn’t understand the math behind it, but I understood the principles. The more I learned the more I realized I had to learn. The complex intricacies of Angle of attack, Aerofoil shape, Metacenter, Balance and weight distribution. The amount of engineering that goes into making an Aircraft. ![]() I understood why helicopters have a tail rotor and realized how my first helicopter design with a single motor and propeller had failed. I learned about power to weight ratio and was dismayed that all my previous attempts were based on wrong assumptions. I was the evil overlord then, torturing my motors until they died.Īs time went on my understanding of the laws of flight grew. I had burned out the bearing of many motors, they would come to a screeching halt like they are screaming in agony. To increase the power, I would add batteries in series. I knew it did not have the power to lift the battery. I would bootstrap designs, but none of them flew. And thus began my journey to take part every toy I had to find motors for my helicopter. I even got electrocuted, trying to plug the old cable into the socket. Hardly any lift at all, I was disappointed. I tried giving it a pull, measuring how much lift it produced and how much weight it needed to lose. It created a lot of wind but did not lift off like I expected it to. I put the assembly on the floor so that the blade faced downward. I took apart an old table fan and cleaned it and oiled it up to make it go fast, removed all the excess weight of the stand and was left with was the motor, the blade, and the cage. All I knew was I need a propeller spinning very fast to create lift. I remember the day when I set out to make my first helicopter, with my basic understanding of physics. I tried to learn as much as could about Aircrafts, most of it from watching Television. How does a machine that’s made of metal, float through the air like that? I wondered what it would be like to be in one of those machines effortlessly cutting its way across the sky. I will forever remember that day as the day I found my life long love. Then I realized how cool it was, to be a pilot. ![]() At first, what went through my mind, was fear.
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