We have learned that air has mass, air has temperature and air has pressure. The properties of air are important to know when learning about flight. The properties of air affect flight!
Here are 3 experiments we tried in class to see the properties of air!
Air has mass :
Air has temperature :
Air has pressure :
The Four Forces of Flight
A force is a push or a pull.
There are 4 forces that act on an aircraft to help it fly: Lift, gravity, thrust and drag.
Watch to learn more about the four forces that affect flight!
We tested lift and Bernoulli's principal by creating airfoils and different shaped wings and seeing which ones generated the best lift!