This is a quick time movie of a plane taking off. We were very lucky to get to go to the airport and watch planes take off and land. We learned a lot about the airplane at an airport.
All airplanes follow a flight profile .
This means it follows the same pattern everytime. The first part of a flight is the takeoff . The next step is to Taxi . This is when the pilot moves the plane from the parking spot, past the other parked planes and then onto the runway. The pilot stops the airplane before moving onto the runway and does an engine runup to make sure everything is working.