Joe Gulick
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
How can a big and heavy airplane - such as the 36-ton Boeing 737 airliners flown by Southwest Airlines - lift off the ground and fly?
That's a question a lot of children wonder about at some point during their elementary school years. The fifth-graders at Maedgen Elementary know the answer is the forces of lift, thrust, drag and gravity.
The Maedgen students learned that and many other aviation-related facts from Southwest Airlines pilot John Sims, who has been "adopted" by their school once again this spring.
Sims is a former Maedgen Elementary student and one of about 750 Southwest pilots who participate in the airline's Adopt-A-Pilot program.
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