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Old 16th March 2001 | 13:27
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chicken6
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(Bell?) 212man

Your analogy again has a subtle flaw - a helium balloon is an aerostat, not an aerodyne. There is no action or reaction on the air from an aerostat (static), whereas there is from an aerodyne (dynamic).