How An Airplane Flies
Directed by Derek Armstrong
Derek Armstrong’s 1975 Shell Film Unit instructional series on aerodynamics, explaining the relationship between lift and weight as the foundational forces that keep an aircraft flying. (Note: This is an update of the 1947 film series of the same name.)
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