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> Normal, cambered wings work because of the Bernoulli effect, where pressure is lower above the wing because of the way airflow is designed. Wait a minute. I
by jhgb 5y ago
> Normal, cambered wings work because of the Bernoulli effect, where pressure is lower above the wing because of the way airflow is designed.
Wait a minute. I thought this was debunked quite some time ago?
> Lift is not generated by pushing air down, the wing is literally getting sucked upwards.
Lift must be generated by pushing something down because otherwise you'd have a violation of Newton's laws. And the only way that pushing something down doesn't move that something is when that something is a solid support (like for example the chair I'm sitting on right now), which is not the case of an airplane in flight.