flightoffancy wrote in
:

In article ,
says...
The downwash thing is wrong. Yes, there is some dispacemtn of air that
causes lift, but it' only a minor contribution in the bigger scheme of
things.



I admit to being a relative retard on this issue (not as retarded as a
non-pilot probably is, but not as educated as an aeronautical engineer).

I thought I had read in numerous books during training that the primary
component of lift is the air that gets knocked downward by the wing. I
was calling that "downwash". Maybe my concept of downwash is wrong,
maybe it's a separate consideration from the air that gets knocked
downward by the airfoil. Hell I might not be remembering any of that
correctly.

Anyway you say downwash is minor.

Well okay. But then what are the major contributions that cause lift in
the bigger scheme of things?


Bernoulli, Period, Full stop, end of story, finito, spaghettio, Finis
sayonara, Good lucko,



Bertie