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WINGS Other inventors had discovered that curved wings reduce air pressure above and increase it below, resulting in an upward push, or lift. While most used a perfect-arc design, the Wrights put the high point of the arc nearer the leading edge. They believed this would increase the Flyer's stability by keeping the wings balanced over the center of pressure, where lift is focused, as the plane moved up and down during flight...
PROPELLERS Unlike their predecessors who copied boat propellers, the Wrights realized that a propeller works like a rotating wing. The same forces that create lift could generate thrust. The Wright Flyer had two propellers, which moved in opposite directions...
STEERING The brothers' most important achievement was their three-dimensional control system: it's why their Flyer worked when other planes didn't. The Wrights realized a plane could not be turned with just a rudder, like a boat; it had to bank into turns to stay under control...
...that's left of that heyday are 62 slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from €7 to €1 per passenger and provided money for training and marketing. Though few visitors linger long before flying elsewhere or taking the 46-km bus trip north...
...really to fulfill the point of the movie: getting himself overly excited about everything else he finds there. He tries to impress a date by taking her to a diner that advertises the WORLD'S BEST CUP OF COFFEE, waves back at people hailing taxis and receives each advertising flyer as if it were a gift. And, since it's a Christmas movie, he brings his dad's broken family together and falls in love with a department-store elf (Zooey Deschanel). His spastic exuberance is partly counterbalanced by the tenderness given to the film by director Jon Favreau, working...