Usually planes are able to fly when air moves across the wings which generates lift. But how do fighter jets able to maintain lift while performing aerobatic maneuvers?

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Usually planes are able to fly when air moves across the wings which generates lift. But how do fighter jets able to maintain lift while performing aerobatic maneuvers?

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Answer 1

In order for a plane to fly, it has to push its own weight in air downward. Then, as per Newton’s Law, the plane in turn gets its own weight in force upward and flies. It can push air in a variety of ways. The airfoil curve of the wing is just one way— there is also outright deflection (the wing pointing up and air bouncing off the bottom side), an engine pointing downwards, or even some planes have ducted fans or downward-pointing fans to take off on short or even no runway. Anything that forces air down makes the plane go up.