What web site give good information on how an aircraft flies?

Question

What web site give good information on how an aircraft flies?

Answer 1

Depends how detailed you want to get.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/airplane.ht... - Decent starting place - explains things in fairly easy to understand terms.  I can't say that this is a reliable source for college-level work (some parts are pretty opinionated), but it'll get you started.

http://www.av8n.com - LOTS of theory - not a quick answer, but very thorough.

EDIT:  Ok, my beef with the first site is that the author says that Bernoulli's principle is a flawed and simplified way of explaining lift, but he doesn't bring up any sort of mass airflow principle...  But that's way beyond what you're asking for.

Answer 2

The best resource is Nasa.gov if you want technical info.

Answer 3

Several.  One or two I can think of would possibly be:

http://www.essortment.com/howdoairplane_...

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExp...

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/k...

http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_%28for...  From here you can click your way around and find some decent info.