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Old October 4th 07, 01:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Mxsmanic
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Default Backwash Causes Lift?

Le Chaud Lapin writes:

I am not an expert either, but I know enough to know that the
explanations I am reading in books are, at best, misleading.


That's an open secret in aviation. The mechanism of lift has been widely
explained incorrectly for years.