And another point: it's no necessery for the air going over the top to "meet its mate" going around the bottom. This becomes quite obvious if you study circulation. But the really neat thing is that aeroplanes do fly! :)

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

What! after nearly a hundred years of flying, we're still arguing over how it happens!

Many is the time I've been flying and looked out at the wings and thought, 'I know what the books say, but it still looks impossible.'

I've been involved in this argument before, it can get quite heated at times. The fact is that Bernoulli is quite intuitive where as the the other stuff....well it requires some thinking. Imagine trying to explain it to a student PPL.

To be perfectly honest, it should be straightforward to find out precisely what are the forces involved in this day and age. It seems obvious that they're interrelated. After all it's not magic or religion, just physics.

It wouldn't be the first time, basic principles were found to be in error though, I seem to remember being told that the direction of current flow in electricity was found to be different to what was postulated for years?