How planes fly: “Air, very important magic.” See also: No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air and how airfoils work.
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Even Neil deGrasse Tyson got it wrong recently: https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1790427225373987068
Someone once explained it to me as planes fly on the air not in it and once I understand that air is a substance instead of "nothing" as I originally thought it helped.
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