People have been flying airplanes for well over a century. Engineers know how to balance all the forces at play, but still aren’t exactly sure how some of the physics of flight actually works.
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Ski jumpers do everything they can to counteract the effects of gravity and fly as far as they can down hills.
To stay up, the bird must overcome gravity with a force called ‘lift’.
