Making Heavy Metal Fly
Like Duolingo, but for Making Heavy Metal Fly. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 26 levels across 3 sections, about 52 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Taking Control of the Air, Winning the Tug-of-War, and The Secrets of Flight Science. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Making Heavy Metal Fly
- Air is a physical substance made of molecules
- Lift is generated by the interaction of moving air and the wing
- Moving through air creates a physical force against an object
- The physical nature of air as a fluid that provides resistance and support
- Static air cannot provide the upward force needed to counteract gravity
- Why forward motion is required to generate lift
- Forward speed is the prerequisite for airflow
- Airflow over the wing shape creates the pressure difference known as lift
- The sequence of events that allows a heavy plane to leave the ground
- Lift is the 'equal and opposite reaction' to air being displaced
- A wing must physically deflect air downward to move upward
- The wing's curve forces air to change its path
- The final exit angle of the air (downwash) determines the lift
- The sequence of air interaction with a curved wing surface
- Wings are shaped to redirect flow, not just provide resistance
- The downward curve of the air flow is the specific mechanism of lift
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Making Heavy Metal Fly the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What needs to happen for a wing to create the upward force we call lift?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Making Heavy Metal Fly takes you
Ever wondered how a massive steel tube stays in the sky? Discover the simple tricks of air and speed that turn heavy planes into graceful gliders.
- 1
Taking Control of the Air
- The Magic of Moving Air
- How Wings Use Their Shape
- Steering Up, Down, and Sideways
- Staying Level in the Clouds
- 2
Winning the Tug-of-War
- Fighting Gravity with Lift
- Pushing Through Sticky Air
- Why Speed is Your Best Friend
- The Power Behind the Engines
- How Big is Too Big?
- Landing Without a Thud
- 3
The Secrets of Flight Science
- High Pressure vs. Low Pressure
- What Birds Taught Engineers
- The Invisible Waves Behind the Wing
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Making Heavy Metal Fly is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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