The earth pulls down on the plane...
....and the plane pulls up on the earth.
The air pushes up on the plane and the plane pushes down on the air;
essentially transferring the earth's continuous flow of downward
momentum acting on the plane to a much greater mass of air.
That air keeps that downward momentum, diffusing it through more and
more volume...
....until it eventually transfers it back to the Earth; countering the
aircraft's upward pull on it.
I'm willing to send that to any Ph.D. in Aeronautics that anyone cares
to name and post the answer back here.
Anyone game?
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Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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