{"id":181074,"date":"2023-02-15T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/four-forces-of-flight\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:24:09","slug":"four-forces-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/four-forces-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Forces of Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use items you have at home: balloons, balls, a fan and a stopwatch to act out or understand the forces that act on an airplane. Four forces affect an airplane while it is flying: weight, thrust, drag and lift. See how they work when you do these activities as demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/four_forces_of_flight.pdf?emrc=b5eecf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Forces of Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These activities are adapted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeroresearch\/resources\/mib\/four-forces-k-4\">“Four Forces (K-4)”<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/aeroresearch\/resources\/mib\/four-forces-5-8\">“Four Forces (5-8)”<\/a> educator guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do these activities to understand which forces act on an airplane in flight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":319932,"template":"","categories":[],"stem-terms":[8043,8133,8044,8051,8050,8057,8083,8049,8046,8045],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[],"coauthors":[3854],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebPage","headline":"Four Forces of Flight","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/four-forces-of-flight\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/four-forces-of-flight\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/ED10-0056-35\/ED10-0056-35~large.jpg?w=1920&h=1535&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/ED10-0056-35\/ED10-0056-35~large.jpg?w=1920&h=1535&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint"},"articleSection":"General","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA"}],"creator":["NASA"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2023-02-15T21:31:54Z","datePublished":"2023-02-15T21:31:54Z","dateModified":"2023-05-23T16:24:09Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"Four Forces of Flight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/four-forces-of-flight\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"index\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/ED10-0056-35\/ED10-0056-35~large.jpg?w=1920&h=1535&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2023-02-15T21:31:54Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"General\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":1,"featured_image":{"id":319932,"file":"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/ED10-0056-35\/ED10-0056-35~large.jpg","title":"First Phase of X-48B Flight Tests Completed","alt":"A joint NASA\/Boeing team completed the first phase of flight tests on March 19, 2010.","caption":"A joint NASA\/Boeing team completed the first phase of flight tests on the unique X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA. 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