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Old October 4th 07, 03:50 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Le Chaud Lapin
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Default Backwash Causes Lift?

On Oct 3, 9:26 pm, TheSmokingGnu
wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
You can have lift of an object with no Bernoulli. It's simple vector
addition.


1. You are talking about nature's abhorrence of a vacuum.
2. Vacuum abhorrence is not lift.
3. Airplanes do not generate lift as a result of vacuum abhorrence.
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Conclusion: you are not talking about how aircraft generate lift.


Yes, I am. It's a combination of many things taking place at once.
Vacuum generation by the forward motion of the wing is one of them.

QED.


-LCL-