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I've never quite understood all the "how do wings work?!?" business - you run fast enough to make wind "blow" the bottom of the wing and poof flying. Edit: Ins
by delinka 12y ago
I've never quite understood all the "how do wings work?!?" business - you run fast enough to make wind "blow" the bottom of the wing and poof flying.
Edit: Instead of downvoting, how about an explanation as to why this is not a layman's interpretation of the parent comment?
- elteto 12y agoI didn't downvote you, I'm not part of that select club. It is funny that you say "you run fast enough to make wind blow" and then you fly, because at a very simplistic level, that is exactly what is happening. Making the wind "blow" (and not necessarily under the wing only, mind you) implies a change in velocity, which can only be the result of a change in momentum imparted by a force (the force of the wing on the air). By Newton's third law this generates a reaction force and then you get your "poof flying" moment :) You really should read the content I mentioned, it kinda is explained all in there.
- DanBC 12y agohttp://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/wrong2.html http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/wrong2.html
- delinka 12y agoPretty much backs up my statement. Thanks.
- mcguire 12y agoNot a downvoter, and I haven't looked at the parent comment's reference recently, but any explanation that doesn't involve forcing a parcel of air down in order to generate a force on the aircraft up probably isn't useful.
- Gravityloss 12y agoThen the wing top shape would have little effect.