How Giant Metal Birds Fly
Like Duolingo, but for How Giant Metal Birds Fly. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Magic of Staying Up and Records and Realities. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in How Giant Metal Birds Fly
- Air behaves like a fluid or liquid when an object moves through it quickly
- A plane's weight is supported by the physical resistance of the air it 'leans' on
- The curve forces air to travel at different speeds above and below the wing
- The difference in air behavior creates an upward push called lift
- Air behaves like a physical substance that can support weight at high speeds
- How wing shape generates the upward force of lift
- Air only provides support (lift) if it is moving over the wings fast enough
- Engines create forward momentum (thrust)
- Slowing down too much causes the wings to stop generating lift, leading to a fall
- Forward motion is the 'fuel' for the wings to create lift
- The role of engines in the cycle of flight
- Exposed parts like wheels catch the wind and create 'drag' that slows the plane down
- The critical relationship between speed and maintaining flight
- Tucking parts away makes the plane 'slippery' so it can maintain high speeds more easily
- The purpose of streamlining and reducing drag
- The longest planes exceed 70-80 meters, stretching nearly the full length of a standard pitch
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives How Giant Metal Birds Fly the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What does a heavy airplane actually 'sit' on to stay up in the sky?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where How Giant Metal Birds Fly takes you
Discover the engineering marvels and surprising facts that keep massive aircraft soaring through the sky. From the physics of lift to the secrets of the world's largest jets, you'll see aviation in a whole new light.
- 1
The Magic of Staying Up
- Why Planes Don't Fall Down
- 2
Records and Realities
- The Giants of the Sky
- Life at 30,000 Feet
- Safety and Hidden Tech
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
How Giant Metal Birds Fly is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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