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The flight of a body mainly depends on its response to the atmospheric air, the shape of the body & the forces acting on the body i.e lift, drag, thrust & weight.

The two forces lift & drag are the ones primly influenced by the shape of the body and account to the aerodynamic nature of the body.

Every body produces certain amount of lift & drag but its only the measure of these forces affect the flight.

More lift helps the body to sustain flight ; less drag accounts for more aerodynamic nature of the body i.e, less lift/thrust is required to sustain the flight and viceversa .

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