Timeline for Pressure difference between 2 side of wings of aircraft
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| Jan 8, 2014 at 14:45 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | @shortstheory: This is my favorite explanation of all that. | |
| Dec 29, 2013 at 14:38 | comment | added | shortstheory | ^But it's not necessary for the air at the trailing edge come in advance of the air under the wing. IIRC, the upper and lower currents can even meet at the trailing edge at the same time and lift can still be explained using Bernoulli's theorem. But reaction lift is a much better explanation IMO, although this diagram does not illustrate it properly. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | This is troublesome, because it doesn't show the air being deflected downward, and it says nothing about the air above arriving at the trailing edge well in advance of the air underneath. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 14:42 | history | edited | engStudent4133 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2013 at 14:36 | history | answered | engStudent4133 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |