Justin Schwartz CTAC 124

Outline
General goal: I want to inform my audience. Specific goal: I want to inform my audience on how an aircraft achieves flight.

Introduction
i. ii. It is the fastest way of travel for mankind, it gives us the ability to travel form continent to continent in a matter of hours, all while defying the laws of mankind. it is the airplane For those of you who have had the chance to fly aboard an aircraft, have you ever thought what it actually takes to makes a plane fly, or what it takes for a plane to fly throughout the sky miles above the ground while achieving speeds up to 500mph! personally, I've been on many planes ride throughout my life, and that thought really never crossed my mind, on what it really takes to for a plane to become airborne, until resonantly once I enrolled in flight school here at Eastern Michigan I learned the science behind the air of flight, and it really is quite amazing how an airplane achieve flight. so, the next few minutes I'm going to spend explaining the science behind how an airplane achieves flight, and to help give you a better understanding of an airplane. Transition: so I'm going to start off with the four forces that effect a plane while in straight and level flight.

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Body
i. The four forces of flight 1. Weight is the force of gravity. It acts in a downward directiontoward the center of

the Earth. Lift is the force that acts at a right angle to the direction of motion through the air. Lift is created by differences in air pressure. Thrust is the force that propels a flying machine in the direction of motion. Engines produce thrust. Drag is the force that acts opposite to the direction of motion. Drag is caused by friction and differences in air pressure. 2. When an airplane is flying straight and level at a constant speed, the lift it produces balances its weight, and the thrust it produces balances its drag. However, this balance of forces changes as the airplane rises and descends, as it speeds up and slows down, and as it turns. 3. Newton's third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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transition statement: the next thing I'm going to explain how the wings create lift. ii. How lift works 1. the main part of the aircraft the creates lift are the wings 2. A wing is shaped and tilted so the air moving over it moves faster than the air moving under it. As air speeds up, its pressure goes down. So the faster-moving air above exerts less pressure on the wing than the slower-moving air below. The result is an upward push on the wing and creates lift. 3. Note that the job of the engine is just to overcome the drag of the airplane, not to lift the airplane. A 1 million pound airliner has 4 engines that produce a grand total of 200,000 of thrust. The wings are doing the lifting, not the engines.

conclusion
1. So today we have gone in depth on what it really takes for an airplane to achieve flight, with the four forces of flight, how an airplane wing creates lift, and how wings keeps the plane level throughout flight. 2. so I am hoping that with my presentation today I have really helped explain how much really it takes for an airplane to become airborne, I hope next time you're sitting inside of an airplane you can really appreciate how far mankind has come, by creating this technological modern marvel called the airplane.