radarlove
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cforst513 said:i actually got that from google here's the link:
http://mb-soft.com/public2/lift.html
i wanted to sound smart first before i 'fessed up to copyright infringement. and i'm with flyinscotsman, by the way
Interestingly (at least to me) that explanation at the web site is wrong. Not really wrong, but they use that silly phrase.
QUOTE: "The air that meets the front edge of a wing must get past it, to meet up again after the wing has gone by"
This, to me is idiocy.
The reason Bernoulli lift occurs on the wing is because the top of the wing (curved) creates "half" of a "bernoulli tube". The air is accelerated, not in relation to the air on the bottom of the wing, but because there is a boundary layer that acts as a poor upper half of the Bournoulli tube.
So all of the lift happens on the top of the wing (well, some reaction lift from the angled part on the bottom too, but it's not super material).