Originally Posted by
homeguard
I've stuck with the thread in a rather cynical certainty that I might actually learn something that would turn on its head all my twenty years of explaining lift somewhat incorrectly.
Now having stayed up all night, ears pricked and eyes wide open, everyone appears to be taking their bat and ball home. Ah! well, its the way it goes. I'll just carry on explaining it all wrong - well why not, it seems to work and I aint heard anything better. Last one out turn out the lights and drop the latch please.
Good night, sleepy heads.
I'm with you - does it REALLY matter how lift is produced as long as we know how to use it?
It doesn't matter if it's Bernoulli, Newton or Basil Brush - more AoA = more lift up until the point when more AoA = less lift. As long as the pilot knows how to recognise, avoid and recover from the dodgy bits of the flight envelope the detailed aerodynamic theory doesn't matter.
This thread has turned into a p1ssing contest - "I can get it higher up the wall than you!".