Lift is the vertical upward force that keeps a plane in the sky. It is generated when air flows over the wings of a plane. Ice and snow can alter how air flows over the wings, which can affect a ...

It could be said that the invention of the airplane is the ultimate triumph of mankind's ingenuity over the forces of nature. Despite our own lack of wings ... up in the air and figured out ...

Indeed, the virtues of elliptical wings had ... behind as the airplane passes. Induced drag increases as the airplane slows down and the angle at which the wing meets the air increases, so it ...

Three decades later, variable-sweep wings became the distinguishing feature of a new aircraft to be flown by both the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark fighter-bomber.