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Wright Flight

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Pupils explain and explain the interactive relationships between forces of lift and gravity, thrust and drag, as they apply to airplanes in motion. They know that Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane based on these principles.

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3rd - 4th
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Science
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