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Old 19th Oct 2012, 21:22
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Lyman
 
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Thanks Italia, I do remember that...

Acceleration. May I leave that for now? I see the wing as an engine. It is an air compressor, a device that increases air pressure faster than the air can escape. This happens dynamically, and pressure is created, then maintained, in an open area.

The viscosity and pressure keep the air from moving fast enough to "escape". For simplicity, the area below the wing is high pressure, above the wing low.

The upper streamline and the wing itself trap the low pressure zone. From the link, "No Mass can penetrate a streamline". As long as the low is confined, the high maintained, the high pressure air wants to enter the low, it has no time to escape around the leading or trailing edges, this works as a dynamic lifting system, the system is created and destroyed thousands of times each Second.

I do apologize if this sounds stupid... But I am an amateur....

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