With more particles there will be more collisions and so a greater pressure. Because the area of the container has increased, there will be fewer of these collisions per unit area and the pressure will decrease. Volume is inversely proportional to pressure, if the number of particles and the temperature are constant.

The amount of fluid displaced is directly related (via Archimedes’ principle) to its volume. In the case of an object that sinks (is totally submerged), the volume of the object is displaced. In the case of an object that floats, the amount of fluid displaced will be equal in weight to the displacing object.

What happens to the pressure in all parts of a confined fluid if the pressure in one part is increased? The pressure everywhere increases by the same amount. A change in pressure at any point in an enclosed fluid at rest is transmitted undiminished to all points in the fluid.

Pressure within a liquid depends only on the density of the liquid, the acceleration due to gravity, and the depth within the liquid. The pressure exerted by such a static liquid increases linearly with increasing depth.

Bernoulli’s principle is then cited to conclude that since the air moves slower along the bottom of the wing, the air pressure must be higher, pushing the wing up. However, there is no physical principle that requires equal transit time and experimental results show that this assumption is false.

Incorrect Lift Theory. There are many theories of how lift is generated. The theory states that airfoils are shaped with the upper surface longer than the bottom. The air molecules (the little colored balls on the figure) have farther to travel over the top of the airfoil than along the bottom.

An airplane can slow down and reduce its speed while in flight. The easiest way to do so is to reduce the amount of thrust that the engines are producing. If an airplane reduces its speed too much, it will of course stall and start dropping precipitously, at which time the airspeed usually also increases again.

In order to meet up at the trailing edge, the molecules going over the top of the wing must travel faster than the molecules moving under the wing. Because the upper flow is faster, then, from Bernoulli’s equation, the pressure is lower. The difference in pressure across the airfoil produces the lift.

A wing is shaped and tilted so the air moving over it moves faster than the air moving under it. As air speeds up, its pressure goes down. So the faster-moving air above exerts less pressure on the wing than the slower-moving air below. The result is an upward push on the wing—lift!

No, an airplane cannot fly with only one wing. In order for a plane to stay stable in air, it has to maintain balance. With only one wing, the weight is shifted to one side of the plane.

According to the report, the middle seat in the back of the aircraft (the rear of the aircraft) had the best position with just 28% fatality rate. In fact, the worst part to sit in is actually on the aisle of the middle third of the cabin as it comes at a 44% fatality rate.

MacCready Gossamer Albatross

Pilots have come out and said that while we’re in the air eating our boxed dinner or packaged snack, they turn the engines off. It also means that if there is an emergency situation and the engines do fail, flight crews have time to solve the issue. …

The primary reason airplanes don’t fly over the Pacific Ocean is because curved routes are shorter than straight routes. Flat maps are somewhat confusing because the Earth itself isn’t flat. Rather, it’s spherical. As a result, straight routes don’t offer the shortest distance between two locations.

The number of “souls” on an aircraft refers to the total living bodies on the plane: every passenger, pilot, flight attendant and crew member, according to Lord-Jones. Pilots often report the number of “souls” when declaring an emergency, she says, so rescuers know the amount of people to search for.

They power not only the Antonov An-124 Ruslans but also the world’s largest, six-engined aircraft, the An-225 Mriya. The aircraft’s nosegear broke off, causing the front of the plane to hit the ground, with severe damage to both the fuselage and wing.

Antonov says that “Since its maiden flight on December 21, 1988, the AN-225 has delivered heavy and outsize shipments across the globe. It is scheduled to remain in service until at least 2033.”

between 4,000km and 15,400km

The joint operation of the Ukrainian and Russian fleets allows them to share the combined An-124-100 commercial fleet of seventeen aircraft (seven of which belong to Antonov Airlines) and the only Antonov An-225 in service worldwide – the largest cargo aircraft in the world.

Because the Mriya can transport items previously thought impossible to deliver by air, the plane has been used extensively. One sample cost for one delivery from Denmark to Kazakhstan was approximately €266,000. The Mriya costs $250 million. There are two AN-25 aircraft in the Antonov fleet.

In June 2016, Ukraine’s major state-owned arms manufacturer Ukroboronprom announced the creation of the Ukrainian Aircraft Corporation within its structure, to combine all aircraft manufacturing enterprises in Ukraine….Antonov.

You can read a full article about the Antonov AN-225 by fellow writer Tom Boon here. It has six engines and 32 wheels to support its huge wingspan of 290 feet. This is bigger than the A380 and does technically answer the question asked in the title.