Originally Posted by PhilM
I believe (may have the wrong figures here...), but Bernoulli can account for about 80% of the lift generated by a wing of an aircraft, the other 20% is Newtonian lift generated by the downwards movement of air (3rd Law, Every action blah blah).
No idea about props! I try to avoid those at all costs!
Bernoulli can acccount for all of it.
Newton's laws can account for all of it.
This applies to wings or props (although for props or fast wings you need to switch to the compressible form of the equation).
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