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Airplanes are streamlined in order to reduce drag (coefficient of friction). This allows for less resistance, less fuel consumption, and greater speed.

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How do airplanes fly so fas6t?

They are streamlined and have powerful engines.


How do airplanes look like now?

They are bigger and more streamlined than they used to be.


What sort of objects need to be streamlined?

Objects that are designed for movement through a fluid medium, such as airplanes, cars, boats, and even underwater robots, need to be streamlined. Streamlining reduces drag, making it easier for these objects to move efficiently and swiftly through the air or water.


Why are airplanes made in a streamlined shape?

To reduce drag and therefore improve performance and efficiency.


Why are airplanes are designed with pointed nose and thin tails?

so that it is streamlined and it can go faster


What are the five examples of streamlined shapes in day to day life?

Airplanes have streamlined shapes to reduce drag and improve aerodynamics. Fish have streamlined bodies to move efficiently through water. Cars often incorporate streamlined designs to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce wind resistance. Speedboats are built with streamlined hulls to glide smoothly through water. Bullet trains have streamlined profiles to decrease air resistance and achieve high speeds.


Why do airplanes are bullet shaped?

Smooth, streamlined shapes reduce air resistance. Symmetric shapes ensure flight stability.


Why are airplanes streamlined with rounded instead of square wings and bodies?

if they were square it would be like friction and the airplane wouldn't be able to move


Why do airplanes need wings?

airplanes need wings so they can glide and land correctly


Why are airplains and birds have stremlined?

Birds are streamlined because all species of birds that ever existed and were NOT streamlined were unable to outfly the streamlined predators, so they got caught and eaten, laid very few eggs, had very few hatchlings, and became extinct. Airplanes are streamlined because that design reduces aerodynamic drag, which directly subtracts from thrust. So a streamlined airplane uses much less fuel than a square airplane does to cover the same distance. Once this fact became generally known, nobody would buy any square airplanes, and the companies that built them went out of business. A lot like the birds.


Why do boats need to be streamlined?

to be able to get through water as easily as possible, the same way that planes and fast cars have to be streamlined.


What are different streamlined objects?

There are many different streamlines object. The streamlined object is the object that air hits it least. Any object that is pointy or Begin with small part to a big part this is streamlined object.