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Without friction, air resistance or gravity, conservation of energy suggests that a paper airplane would keep sailing forever. True False

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The forces that act on a paper plane are the same ones that maintain in flight an aircraft: gravity, thrust, resistance and sustentation. The latter is the ascending force produced by the wings and opposes the gravitational force.
WOULD BE FALSE
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