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How An Airplane Flies

197528mDerek Armstrong

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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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What is How An Airplane Flies (1975) about?

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.)

How long is How An Airplane Flies?

How An Airplane Flies has a runtime of 28 min and premiered in 1975.

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