one of the very great things that the wright brothers did was to stop using their bodily senses to understand flying and to objectively measure with instruments the forces in wind tunnels.
just everyone has poked their hand out the window of a car, curved their hand and "felt" the lift forces.
but what have they actually felt? the nerves in your skin only react to heat, pinch and cold. you simply don't sense a lot of the pressure variations and forces.
only by measuring with instruments (no matter how crude) will you ever uncover what the forces actually are.
crap on all you like about the wrights but they are acknowledged as the "fathers of flight" for the sum total of their achievements. you can't change that.