Originally Posted by
Vessbot
The accelerated, lower pressure isn't on the cambered side. That's a common misconception from overly simplistic teaching. It's on whichever side is turned away from the airflow due to AOA.
You need let go of camber as being some fundamental bedrock of lift production, because it isn't. A sheet of plywood will make lift and serve fine as a wing. Camber just makes it slightly more efficient.
I do recall my instructor telling me he could make the laptop on my desk fly so I suppose this is what he was getting it.
I did hold onto the idea though that the upper side produced
lower pressure than the lower side (due to bernoulli's theorem), but of course that the pressure still dropped on the lower side, just not as much. It seemed to make perfect sense. So the reality is that the camber just helps the lift production on the upper side of the wing (granted that's where we want our lift produced most time) but the flatter side can still produce lift given the correct AoA?