How Do Airplanes Fly? ✈️ 4 Forces Explained for Kids

How can a giant airplane stay up in the sky? 🛫 Find out about the four invisible helpers that make flying possible: Weight, Thrust, Drag, and Lift! Try it yourself: stick your hand out of a car window (with a grown-up, and only when it's safe!) and tilt it up. Feel it float? That's lift! Chapters: 0:00 Look, a plane! 0:06 As heavy as 100 elephants 0:16 Four invisible helpers 0:23 Weight 0:31 Thrust 0:42 Drag 0:53 Lift 1:00 The hand-out-the-window trick 1:14 How wings push air down 1:30 Takeoff! 1:43 When the forces balance 1:50 Wave hello to the sky New videos every week! Subscribe to How Come? 🔔 #HowCome #ScienceForKids #HowAirplanesFly