Editing Magnus effect (section)

== In aviation ==
[[File:Flettner Rotor Aircraft.jpg|thumb|right|Anton Flettner's rotor aircraft]]
Some aircraft have been built to use the Magnus effect to create lift with a rotating cylinder instead of a wing, allowing flight at lower horizontal speeds.<ref name="Glenn">{{cite web |url=http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/cyl.html |title=Lift on rotating cylinders |publisher=NASA Glenn Research Center |date=2010-11-09 |access-date=2013-11-07 |archive-date=11 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111061848/http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/cyl.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The earliest attempt to use the Magnus effect for a heavier-than-air aircraft was in 1910 by a US member of Congress, [[Butler Ames]] of Massachusetts. The next attempt was in the early 1930s by three inventors in New York state.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 1930 |title=Whirling Spools Lift This Plane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSgDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Science+Whirling+Spools&pg=PA26 |magazine=Popular Science |page=26 |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref>