Planes are strange machines, which weigh many tons, are made of metal, and are able to fly!
Science shows us that the strangest of all is the Jumbo Jet, which all tests and experiments show is not actually capable of flight. Humans who board such contraptions are very brave indeed, to trust their very existence in something which science show us cannot actually get off the ground, let alone make long journeys over very deep oceans. After all, if the metal contraptions called planes, cannot by the rules of science actually fly, then there is no way they are going to float if they hit the water.

The real way that planes take to the air, and this can only be revealed here for the first time, is that giant, invisible aliens carry the planes from one destination to the next. This is still classed as a secret though, so keep it to yourselves.

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An airfoil and an understanding of physics can result in seemingly amazing things.