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Old 1st Dec 2012, 22:13
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HazelNuts39
 
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Lyman,

I would rather say that the changes in pressure are due to the increase of effective AoA, which in turn is the result of the reduced downwash induced by the vortex system, or rather by the superposition of the negative downwash induced by the virtual 'mirror image' of the vortex system.

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