Originally Posted by
vh-foobar
No,
They don't have the same horizontal path, and the AOA will not be identical. Does it make any difference? I don't know. Certainly from a flight instruction point of view I would suggest that it is irrelevant.
I'm not even sure if an aeronautical engineer can work out all the factors with 100% accuracy, hence the need for test pilots...
Not suggesting you should not try and understand the underlying physical phenomenon, just be aware your predictions may be wrong
Both wings have different horizontal speeds, this means that the outer wing travels faster in order to cover the same distance as the inner wing, so SAME horizontal path. Imagine two circles. One inside the other, therefore one smaller than the other one. Now place your airplane in a way you place one wing in each circles' border, and now start moving your airplane over the circles.
Both wings will be describing the same path over the circles, despite the outer wing will be doing it faster.
Agus.