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Old 1st Jul 2022, 04:54
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My head starts to hurt if I go much beyond the basic idea that efficient lift requires both Newton and Bernoulli (with a dash of Coanda, Kutta and Jukowski, and others).

We could fly with the proverbial "barn door" for a wing, given sufficent power and speed and some AoA. All Newtonian: reaction, 3rd Law and all that. But Bernoulli camber and suction/reduced-pressure on top makes it far more efficient and effective.

The fact that catastrophic loss of lift (an AoA stall, or surface contamination stall) generally comes from disrupted flow over the top of the wing seems to me to be significant.

I'm not aware of disrupted flow on the lower surface of a wing (leaving out horizontal stabilizers) ever causing much in the way of "lift" problems. Drag, yes. Weight, sometimes. Not so much lift. But I'm willing to be educated.
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