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Old October 8th 07, 07:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]
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Default Backwash Causes Lift?

flightoffancy wrote in
:

In article ,
says...
flightoffancy wrote:

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/lift1.html

And if you click on "turning" you can see this explanation of the
term (and hopefully why "turning" was chosen):

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/right2.html

And this is what aerodynamicists call "downwash" :

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/downwash.html


Thanks James!

As LCL does I appreciate these links. If even NASA has it wrong, then
I'd say the chance that anybody on this thread having it right is
close to nil.



Nasa on't have it wrong, but that site is far from complete.


Bertie