Yet none of those seven predecessors reached the final, much less lifted the trophy.
Mr. Van Zandt said he was also surprised by a segment in which Mr. Springsteen picked up a guitar and demonstrated how his song "Prove It All Night" was more or less lifted from the Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".
This month, Mr. Obama's pivot into an "all of the above" energy policy platform, one more or less lifted from the Republicans' 2008 campaign, is something moderate Democrats, many of whom support things like the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that Mr. Obama has blocked, are also happy to hear.
Small stuff takes less lift to fly but might not hold a battery with enough energy to do so.
When the wings were warped, or twisted, one end of the wings produced more lift and the other end, less lift.
The higher the density, the more lift will be generated; the lower the density, the less lift will be generated.
Modern airplanes do this with ailerons, hinged sections of the wing that move up and down, creating extra lift on one side and less lift on the other.
Their "V" shape wings produce less lift, and so the plane must fly faster on takeoff and landing compared with other aircraft.
Complicating matters, on a swept-wing jet, a skid will put one wing perpendicular to the oncoming air and produce more lift, while the other wing trails in the wind and produces less lift.
