What IF You Could Fly?
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What if you threw a paper airplane in class — and flew right after it, twice around the ceiling lamp?
Sam can fly. But his power works more like a paper airplane than a balloon: the moment he stops, he drops. Soon he's flying to school in four minutes, carrying Oscar over the hedges, racing a truck on the highway, and learning the rules in Dr. Reyes's lab the hard way: keep moving or fall, the heavier you are the faster you must go, always land into the wind, and stay below one kilometer. The internet calls him Sky Sam. Then one windy Saturday at 3:10 p.m., at kite day in the stadium, a giant kite lifts a little boy into the sky — with the string tied around his wrist.
Along the way: why flapping your arms will never work, the six-meter wings a grown-up would need, the man who pedaled a plane across the sea in 1979, why the air gets colder and thinner as you climb, the vulture that hit a plane at 11,300 meters, and why planes land into the wind.
👇 If you could fly for one day, where would you go first? Tell us in the comments.
🔔 Subscribe for Part 2: who sent the paper airplane that says "I can fly too"?
Chapters:
00:00 The paper airplane
00:34 The crazy part
01:41 Cold up there
02:41 Like a paper airplane
03:35 Rules from the lab
04:42 Sky Sam
05:30 The giant kite
06:05 Keep moving
07:25 The birthday
07:58 Is any of this real?
The science behind the story:
• To fly like a bird, a ~70 kg person would need wings about 6 m wide (biologist Ty Hedrick, UNC, using Robert Nudds's bird-scaling equation) — plus huge flight muscles; in some birds the main flight muscle is up to ~35% of body weight (Journal of Experimental Biology).
• On 12 June 1979, Bryan Allen pedaled the 32 kg Gossamer Albatross 35.8 km across the English Channel in 2 h 49 min.
• In the standard atmosphere, air cools about 6.5 °C per kilometer of height (ICAO); air pressure falls to about half at roughly 5,500 m.
• The highest confirmed bird flight: a Rüppell's vulture struck an airliner at 11,300 m over Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on 29 November 1973 (Guinness World Records).
• A diving peregrine falcon can exceed 300 km/h (Guinness World Records).
• Wind chill: moving air strips warmth from skin, so it feels colder than the thermometer says (U.S. National Weather Service).
• Planes take off and land into the wind — a headwind lowers their speed over the ground (NASA Glenn Research Center).
Animated fiction. All characters and events are invented. Flying rules in the story are made up for fun.
#whatif #animation #science
Sam can fly. But his power works more like a paper airplane than a balloon: the moment he stops, he drops. Soon he's flying to school in four minutes, carrying Oscar over the hedges, racing a truck on the highway, and learning the rules in Dr. Reyes's lab the hard way: keep moving or fall, the heavier you are the faster you must go, always land into the wind, and stay below one kilometer. The internet calls him Sky Sam. Then one windy Saturday at 3:10 p.m., at kite day in the stadium, a giant kite lifts a little boy into the sky — with the string tied around his wrist.
Along the way: why flapping your arms will never work, the six-meter wings a grown-up would need, the man who pedaled a plane across the sea in 1979, why the air gets colder and thinner as you climb, the vulture that hit a plane at 11,300 meters, and why planes land into the wind.
👇 If you could fly for one day, where would you go first? Tell us in the comments.
🔔 Subscribe for Part 2: who sent the paper airplane that says "I can fly too"?
Chapters:
00:00 The paper airplane
00:34 The crazy part
01:41 Cold up there
02:41 Like a paper airplane
03:35 Rules from the lab
04:42 Sky Sam
05:30 The giant kite
06:05 Keep moving
07:25 The birthday
07:58 Is any of this real?
The science behind the story:
• To fly like a bird, a ~70 kg person would need wings about 6 m wide (biologist Ty Hedrick, UNC, using Robert Nudds's bird-scaling equation) — plus huge flight muscles; in some birds the main flight muscle is up to ~35% of body weight (Journal of Experimental Biology).
• On 12 June 1979, Bryan Allen pedaled the 32 kg Gossamer Albatross 35.8 km across the English Channel in 2 h 49 min.
• In the standard atmosphere, air cools about 6.5 °C per kilometer of height (ICAO); air pressure falls to about half at roughly 5,500 m.
• The highest confirmed bird flight: a Rüppell's vulture struck an airliner at 11,300 m over Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on 29 November 1973 (Guinness World Records).
• A diving peregrine falcon can exceed 300 km/h (Guinness World Records).
• Wind chill: moving air strips warmth from skin, so it feels colder than the thermometer says (U.S. National Weather Service).
• Planes take off and land into the wind — a headwind lowers their speed over the ground (NASA Glenn Research Center).
Animated fiction. All characters and events are invented. Flying rules in the story are made up for fun.
#whatif #animation #science
Palavra-chave: meteorologia em manica
