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Theory of flight

United States, 1941
film

Wind tunnel tests demonstrate the relation between air velocity and lift and drag on plain and cambered air-foils; control of aeroplane movements about vertic..

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Bernoulli's principle

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Winds and their causes

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Learning about air

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