The document summarizes what different children thought about how planes fly. Breanna said planes fly with wings, an engine, and a pilot. Renyk mentioned speed, wings, drag, lift, weight, and a propeller or engine provide thrust. Jamie explained that thrust from the engine and lift from the shape and pressure of the wings allow planes to fly.

1. How do planes fly?
We asked children what
they thought.

2. What do other people
think?
• Breanna said:
With wings and the engine and
the pilot
the shape of the plane……..

3. Renyk said:
they’ve got speed and wings to
fly and they need … they’ve got
things
called drag, lift and weight… a
propeller or something. They
need air and speed to get up in
the air.

4. • Jamie said:
Thrust and then there’s lift. Lift
is created by the shape of the
wing, low pressure and high
pressure.
Thrust is like, the engine in a
car. Its in the front, they are on
the wings in a place. There’s
also drag.

9. • Planes use engines to move quickly down
the runway to create the lift for take
off.
• Plane wings are build to be curved on top
and flat on the bottom. The air moves
faster over the top of the wing and the
air going under gives the wing lift.

10. • By Shyan, Matthew and
Heinrich