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Weight is the force on the object due to gravity. DO NOT USE weight as a colloquial substitute for mass.
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Does general relativity predict different forces on aircraft than Newtonian mechanics?
When taught how airplanes fly, we are probably always given the Newtonian mechanism: that four forces act on an airplane; lift and weight on the vertical axis, and thrust and drag on the horizontal axis … However, this is not what happens; passengers in an airplane coasting at a constant velocity feel their normal weight due entirely to lift, as implied by general relativity. …
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