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Old 20th November 2012 | 09:48
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From: EGDC
From the same NASA pages that JB77UK used at the beginning of this thread

Bernoulli and Newton

Summary - it is complicated and only really clever people can understand it

The last line
To truly understand the details of the generation of lift, one has to have a good working knowledge of the Euler Equations.
well that counts me out

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