Just as I suspected, with one or two illustrious exceptions -
I've been putting my life in the hands of pilots for years, and you still haven't agreed how the wings work !
I've always gone for a
mix of the ' airflow deflected down ' idea- I've been under low flying fast jets, and that's how it seemed to me ! Mind you they were at relatively high alpha, flaps & power on, for chase work.
Also the ' baby sucking on a straw ' pressure theories, but have only studied aeronatics slightly compared to most posting here.
I once attended a lecture by Bill Bedford, when he was asked by an idiot ( who naturally qualified later as a BAe 'manager' for about 5 minutes ) " what new developments are in the pipeline, and will we see the P-1154 ?"
This was 1978 ! Bill gave him a withering look, and replied " well we haven't got anti-gravity paint worked out yet ! "