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EPISODE 004: PHAK Chapter 4: Principles of Flight

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This chapter of the PHAK describes the fundamental forces of flight—lift, weight, thrust, and drag—and how they interact to keep an aircraft airborne. It introduces aerodynamic principles such as Bernoulli’s Principle, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and how stalls occur.

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