Matthew,
You seem to be extrapolating my posts beyond what I've stated.
My position is simply that lift can not be adequately explained by a simple 2d model, and that the 'air deflected downwards' is not a complete model.
What if the free falling mass started hurtling small bundles of mass to the ground with sufficient effort that the large mass reduced its momentum to zero? Get my point?
Sure. I don't dispute it.
But extend your model. Where are these lumps of mass coming from, and where do they go after they've impacted the other body?
Weather systems aside, if you took a large fleet of aircraft and just flew them around all day, would the atmosphere get gradually compressed in the lower levels as the wings deflected air downwards?
This sounds like a gyro-levitation device (those don't work).
No mention of Gyro theory from me. I'm talking about a wing, and wake vortices.
If creating two equal and opposite vortices is the action, then the reaction is going to be two equal and opposite moments. That would sum to zero as well.
The
moments sum to zero, (which is why our aircraft isn't undergoing any angular acceleration about its longitudinal axis.) However, given that the two wings are on opposite sides of the aircraft, this is consistent with an upwards force on both wings.
Bottom line is most of this comes into the 'picture paints a thousand words' category, so I'll leave it there for tonight.
pb