How do planes fly? * How do planes fly? Backs up what Johnny was saying about how wings work (Explain That Stuff!) * The physics of sailing (UNSW) * You can sail into the wind, but not exactly upwind - The physics of sailing (Physics Buzz blog, Physics Central) * The hipster PDA: Merlin Mann's index card system (43 Folders) * What is turbulence? From a fluid dynamics perspective (Wikipedia) * Turbulence - everything you need to know (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot) * Air turbulence - how dangerous is it? (livescience) * What is tacking in sailing? (Wikipedia) * What is tacking in sailing? (School of Sailing) * The spice routes were the 'maritime silk road' (UNESCO) * The search for new sea routes for the spice trade really kicked off in the 1500s (Encyclopaedia Britannica) * Trade routes followed the 'trade winds' (Wikipedia) * Prevailing winds blow from a certain direction over a point on the Earth's surface (Wikipedia) * How do planes fly upside down? (Physics StackExchange) * Flying upside down (Air & Space, Smithsonian) * Wing flaps & slats (NASA) * More flaps: Wing flaps for lift augmentation in aircraft (Decoded Science) * What is drag? (NASA) * Aerodynamics, an introduction - including a description of drag (Explain That Stuff!) * Four forces affect things that fly: weight, lift, thrust, drag (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum) * Powered aircraft (Wikipedia) * Unpowered aircraft (Wikipedia) * Unpowered flight (Wikipedia) * Flight (Wikipedia) * What is autorotation? (Wikipedia) * The Gimli glider: Air Canada plane that glided to land on a race track after running out of fuel in 1983 (Wikipedia) * The Gimli glider was recently sold...after a further 25 years of service! (Financial Post) * Video of an aborted landing just a few feet off the ground - also shows how much wings flex (YouTube) * Pilots have detailed checklists (Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot) * How a glider works...Remember the space shuttle? It was a glider! (NASA) * Birds, thermals & soaring flight (Aerospaceweb.org) * Birds of prey riding thermals (YouTube) * Plane wings are pretty flexible (Wired) * Turbulence & why you should buckle up (Civil Aviation Safety Authority) * Headwinds & tailwinds (Wikipedia) * Headwinds allow take off & landing on shorter amounts of runway (United Hub) * Airport design & naming runways (NASA) * Runway numbers explained (Atlas Obscura, YouTube) * Airspeed versus ground speed (Aerospaceweb.org) * Planes can levitate on the ground if it's windy enough (YouTube) * How does a wind sock work? A pilot explains (YouTube) * What is a jumbo jet? A Boeing 747 (Wikipedia) * Flaps during takeoff & landing (Wikipedia) * Thrust reversal (Wikipedia) * Thrust reversal (Purdue University) * Stopping the A380 (Air & Space Smithsonian) * Rolls Royce jet engines (Rolls Royce) * Picture: A Boeing 717 with 'petal' thrust reversal on engines (CQ Plane Spotting) * A database of paper aeroplanes with folding instructions (Fold'NFly) * What do winglets do? i.e. The flipped up bits on the end of plane wings (NASA) * Winglets or 'wing tip devices' (Wikipedia) * Why do golf balls have dimples? (livescience) * Shark scales create tiny whirlpools for speedy swimming (livescience) * Proper scientific paper: Shark-skin surfaces for fluid-drag reduction in turbulent flow (The Royal Society) * Bros had flipped up fringes like winglets (Old School Pannini) * What is a jet stream? (livescience) * What is drift diving? (PADI) * Flight times between New York & London slashed by jet stream's power (ABC Australia) * The Flat Earth Society * What is a 'great circle' & how are they used for flight routes? (AeroSavvy) * Air distance & flight time calculator (Great Circle Mapper) * There are flight routes over the North Pole, but probably not Antarctica (Wikipedia) * Fonzie cool (YouTube) * Chesley Sullenberger: the super cool pilot that landed the plane on the Hudson River (Wikipedia) * US Airways flight 1549 that landed on the Hudson River (Wikipedia) * British Airways flight 9 whose engines stalled in an ash cloud in 1982: Lucy was exaggerating slightly, it wasn't a 2-hour emergency...but still pretty serious (Wikipedia) * Flying or driving: Which Is safer? (Science 2.0) * Flying, driving or trains: Which Is safer? (AirlineReporter) * Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum * The Wright Brothers 'invented' aviation in 1903 (The Wright Bros) * The Apollo Lunar Module landed on the moon in 1969 (Wikipedia) * Sydney to London in 4 hours just got another step closer (News.com.au) * Australian scientists just successfully launched a jet which could fly from Sydney to London in 2 hours (Business Insider Australia) * The Concorde supersonic jet (Wikipedia) * Concorde: 40 fascinating facts (The Telegraph)

Corrections * Sorry Lucy, you mixed up Newton's 3rd & 1st laws: The 3rd law is relevant to plane wings...'equal & opposite reaction' (NASA) * Sorry Johnny, helicopters CAN fly without power via 'autorotation' (copters.com)

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