In aircraft and flying terminology, there is induced drag and parasitic drag. Induced drag is the kind of drag that you want, while parasitic drag is a side-effect that you wish weren’t there. For an airplane, we want lift which is a kind of drag. We push the plane faster through the air to make a good kind of drag (lift) on the airfoil-shaped wings. As we push the plane forward faster, though, we get unwanted drag (friction) against things like the landing gear. The good kind of drag is called “induced drag”, while the unwanted kind of drag is called “parasitic drag”.
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In aircraft and flying terminology, there is induced drag and parasitic drag. Induced drag is the kind of drag that you want, while parasitic drag is a side-effect that you wish weren’t there. For an airplane, we want lift which is a kind of drag. We push the plane faster through the air to make a good kind of drag (lift) on the airfoil-shaped wings. As we push the plane forward faster, though, we get unwanted drag (friction) against things like the landing gear. The good kind of drag is called “induced drag”, while the unwanted kind of drag is called “parasitic drag”.