Unless you are into (heavily) fluid dynamics, mathematics (calculus), and physics there is no simple, correct answer.
Over simplified answer... An airfoil moving through the air always produces an area of low pressure above the airfoil, and, almost always, an area of high pressure below. Because the pressure above the airfoil is always lower than below, we can treat the pressure below as high pressure. High pressure wants to move to low pressure, so the wing is forced into the low pressure region. As the airfoil moves faster, the force of this pressure will exceed the force of gravity and presto, flight. There are more forces at play, but I don't understand them well enough to explain.
Naw, it really is PFM that makes aircraft fly. (Pure Freakin' Magic)
As you go through the air, the little air Molecules scream in pain and those little shrieks of suffering is what propels you.
Unless you are into (heavily) fluid dynamics, mathematics (calculus), and physics there is no simple, correct answer.
Over simplified answer... An airfoil moving through the air always produces an area of low pressure above the airfoil, and, almost always, an area of high pressure below. Because the pressure above the airfoil is always lower than below, we can treat the pressure below as high pressure. High pressure wants to move to low pressure, so the wing is forced into the low pressure region. As the airfoil moves faster, the force of this pressure will exceed the force of gravity and presto, flight. There are more forces at play, but I don't understand them well enough to explain.
Naw, it really is PFM that makes aircraft fly. (Pure Freakin' Magic)
@villulennuk well, how will it move then?
The wings generate lift. #SimpleExplanations XD
@jamesPLANESii I actualy dont know How to answer that
But how do you end up in a different place when you step out? And why do we see planes flying? @villulennuk
Oh boy, another Australia-is-not-real sort of troll.
@dootdootbananabus Plane windows are actually TV screens, what show the video of you being in the air, when you are actualy on the ground
@BigRadialEngine that's why airplanes don't have the wings attached to the nose xD
Oh boy, I could write a whole report about this...
But since most people made their answers, not much I can tell you...
except the fact that the COM goes infront of the COL
Little fairys all gather beneath the wings and push it up
The wings provide lift/stability/control, the engine gives thrust.
@villulennuk then how did I fly in a plane? AN-225 could fly because it has big wings and powerful engines
Correct @Fishbowl1121
This was actually a post describing how aircraft fly, not asking how aircraft fly
She explains at the end (at 1.37)
Lol @villulennuk
@ThePrototype Nah, aircraft are just projections in the sky. There is no way a 100Ton object could fly
Pressure difference over wings top and bottom and that creates lift
Airplanes fly by getting the stuff you breathe (air) over their wings.
Lift