Aerodynamics of Flight

Aerodynamics of Flight · 20. January 2026

To master the airplane, you have to understand that it doesn't just move up, down, left, and right. It moves through a three-dimensional grid. We call these the Three Axes of Flight. Every movement the airplane makes happens by rotating around one (or more) of these imaginary lines, all of which pass through the aircraft's Center of Gravity (CG).