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Old March 3rd 06, 02:27 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.student
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David CL Francis wrote:

The air does flow faster over the top than the bottom and for the lower
subsonic region air behaves very closely to being incompressible.
Generally pressure changes are transmitted at the velocity of sound.


I hate to be a spoil sport (or dullard?), but...

the (stationary) air does WHAT (as the wing passes by)???


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