How to learn to fly.
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Any flying school to recommend. thanks.
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the harry potter kind?
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Aeroplane lah.
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youth flying club hear b4?
oh, are u still youth?
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Sporty's Pilot Shop - Learn to fly here : http://www.sportys.com/courses
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You try to go MBS or RWS. Some learnt how to fly from these 2 places.
But so far, those learnt how to fly from these 2 places => No survisor !
These 2 places also taught people how to BBQ. Again, those learnt this BBQ cusine died in their room.
Also, heard these 2 places taught people swing like Tarzan. Should be very Siok ! But those learnt how to swing ended up, with rope around their neck. Hang still !
Blah.......!
Now still open for application ! Go And Try !
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I believe I can fly : http://youtu.be/4ApZbtYPhy4
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first.. you need wing..
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drink red bull everyday
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hahaha,,, i love all the crap reply... malaysia also have flying school. heard its half the price compare to sg.
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Flying Fantasies
Have you ever wished you could fly? Earthbound humans have always been fascinated by other creatures soaring in the sky, and we keep trying to find new ways to fly. Read on to find out more about flight in nature and by man!
In Greek mythology, Icarus and Daedalus flew with wings made of feathers and wax.
The four main forces in flight : Thrust, Weight, Lift and Drag
What is flight?
Flight is the action of moving freely through air. To understand flight, one needs to know about the four basic forces at play, which appear to act in opposing pairs: weight and lift, drag and thrust.
Weight is the downward force caused by gravity acting on the object. It is also a measure of how heavy an object is.
Lift is the force that gets an object into the air by overcoming weight, so a heavier object will need more lift to keep it in the air.
Birds and aeroplanes create lift using wings, which are specially-designed structures with a curved top surface and a flatter bottom surface. As the wing moves through air, the air flowing over the curved top is forced to move faster to cover a longer distance than air flowing along the bottom. Since faster flowing air has lower pressure, the difference in air pressure above and below the wing creates an upward lift.
Drag is the resistance experienced by an object as it moves through air. Ever tried holding your hand outside the window of a moving car, and experienced how it gets pushed back by the "wind"? The force that you feel pushing against your hand is the drag, and it depends on the shape and texture of the object. Aeroplanes and birds tend to have smooth surfaces and streamlined shapes so that air flows smoothly around them.
Thrust is the force that pushes an object forward in the air, and overcomes drag. In flight, this is achieved by pushing air backwards. Winged animals create thrust by flapping their wings at an angle. Aeroplanes do not have flapping wings, so they rely on rotating propeller blades or jet engines to push them forward.
Forms of flight, types of flyers
The ability to fly using one's own effort, by creating thrust and lift, is called powered flight. Four groups of animals have developed powered flight in nature. The first were the extinct flying dinosaurs called pterosaurs. The other three are insects, birds, and bats (mammals). Humans, through the flying machines we have invented, have also achieved powered flight.
Large birds that are heavier and experience more drag, like eagles, storks, and herons, need larger wings. However, flapping their large wings uses a lot of energy, so these birds also make use of wind and rising warm air currents to help them fly with minimum effort. This is known as soaring.
Besides powered flight, there are also gliding and parachuting. Gliding animals do not flap their wings so they do not produce thrust. Some interesting animal gliders include the flying fish, flying squids, flying lizards, and flying squirrels. And there are also flying lemurs, found locally in the forests of Southeast Asia. The name flying lemur is actually quite misleading, as these are neither true lemurs, nor do they actually fly!
Spiders and some other insects can travel long distances by parachuting. They use fine silk threads to form parachutes that lift their bodies when the wind blows.
Nature's extreme flyers
Acrobat hand-flyer: Bats have wings that look like our arms and hands. With a thin layer of skin joining their "hands" to their bodies, bat wings can take on many shapes, giving them the ability to rapidly change directions.
High-flyer: The highest flying animal is the bar-headed goose, which are sometimes seen flying high above Mount Everest, which is 8,848 metres tall. However, the highest flying record is held by a Ruppell's griffon in 1975, at 11,550 metres!
Speed devil: Diving peregrine falcons can fly at more than 300 kilometres an hour. That's three times the speed limit of our expressways!
Airborne marathoner: Bar-tailed Godwits, a migratory shorebird, can fly non-stop for more than 11,000 kilometres!
Monster flyer: The largest-ever flying animal was the Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur as tall as a giraffe with wingspans up to 12 metres!
Timeline of Human Flight
400 BC: The Chinese invented kites, the first man-made object that could fly.
559: First record of man being lifted with kites successfully in China.
1500: Leonardo Da Vinci (the artist who painted "Mona Lisa") drew flying machines. None of them were ever made.
1783: First record of a hot-air balloon. The Montgolfier brothers in France sent a duck, rooster and sheep up in the first balloon. Shortly after, people went up in hot-air balloons.
1849: Sir George Cayley in England invented the first glider. A young boy flew the glider down a hill.
1903: The Wright brothers invented the first powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer I. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and flew approximately 37 metres.
1927: American Charles Lindbergh flew solo non-stop from New York to Paris in 33 hours, in the Spirit of St Louis. (The Concorde completed the same flight in 3 hours at supersonic speeds. At normal speeds,it takes around 7 hours today.)
1957: The USSR (now Russia) launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth.
1961: The Russian, Yuri Gagarian, was the first person to orbit the earth.
1969: American Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon.
Combine human ingenuity and our desire to fly, man has moved beyond gliders, hot air balloons, and aeroplanes, to fly out to space and reach the moon! What is our next frontier?
Word Wise
Streamlined : shaped to give the least resistance to flowing air, water, etc
Supersonic : being capable of moving faster than speed of sound
Frontier: the limit of knowledge or the most advanced achievement in a particular field.
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u need HM to learn fly
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Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):
u need HM to learn fly
nope, u need red bull