![]() ![]() The A-380 would need to push down a lot more air than that to stay in the sky!īut how does it work? Imagine you’re in a swimming pool, and you’re moving a table tennis paddle horizontally through the water. When it’s flying at 220km/h, its wings are pushing about five tonnes of air per second down towards the ground. It weighs just over a tonne (that’s one 600th the size of the A-380!). Think of a tiny plane, such as the single-engine, four-seater Cessna 172. ![]() ![]() This is called ‘lift,’ one of the four things a plane needs to fly. So, the A-380 can stay 12,000m above the Earth because it is constantly pushingĪir down. It weighs nearly 600 tonnes – as much as a small ship – and yet it can fly!Ī plane’s wing is basically an ‘air deflector’: the wing pushes air down and, in return, the air pushes the wing up. I always feel amazed when I see that giant double-decker plane, the incredible A-380. Planes! Have you ever watched a plane fly over and wondered how on earth it can soar through the clouds so effortlessly? ![]()
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