• How Things Fly Exhibition
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    The How Things Fly gallery at the National Mall building after 2009 redesign. This gallery is devoted to explaining the basic principles that allow aircraft and spacecraft to fly.

    A computer-generated image of a Boeing 747 reveals the invisible patterns of air pressure on the jumbo jetliner. The exhibits beneath it demonstrate the forces of lift and drag and how wings work.

  • How Things Fly Exhibition

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Eric Long

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WEB11143-2009

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