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Old 14th Oct 2012, 00:53
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Lyman
 
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Even an asymmetrical profile does nothing without AOA. At zero AoA its lifting force is downward.... The upper surface has negative AoA due its fatter presentation vice lower, flatter plate.

It is a trick, parlayed into fame by the Swiss plumber.....

See, by the time the flow separates evenly, the aft portion of the flat plate on the bottom has gone Newton.....
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