What are the 4 functions of flight?

What are the four functions of flight?

Okay, so flight, right? It’s way more than just wings flapping (or not!). It’s a whole balancing act, like me trying to carry ALL the grocery bags in from the car in one trip.

The four functions are weight, lift, thrust, and drag. Simple.

Okay, weight. That's the Earth pulling you DOWN, gravity's constant hug. I felt that HARD hiking up Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, AZ (May 2022), nearly $30 for the parkin. Oof!

Then you got lift! Lift's like, "Nah, gravity, I got this." It pushes the plane UP, created by the wings slicing through the air. Remember seein' Blue Angels at Pensacola Beach, FL on July 4th, 2015? So much lift!

Thrust is what moves you FORWARD. It’s the engine's power, like my first car, a beat-up '98 Civic, strugglin' to get up hills but it did. Bought for $1200 (May 2010).

Drag, the buzzkill. That's the air resistence, slowing things down, like trying to run through water. Annoying, but nessasary, sorta like taxes. Yeah...

So yeah, weight, lift, thrust, drag. Four fighters in a constant aerial tug-of-war to keep planes, and even my dreams, afloat.