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Old 3rd Dec 2012, 14:43
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Lightning Mate
 
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Let's keep it simple.

When downwash angle decreases due to ground effect, the total aerodynamic force vector is tilted forward.

Upwash only occurs at the leading edge.

but I have learned that it doesn't pay to try to describe the flow to pilots in
terms of bound vorticity!
Some of us understand it though.

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