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I am a colllege student who is soon going to go off and fly for the Air Force. Hopefully fighters. I am a certified flight instructor and primarily teach brand new students how to fly. I am studying electrical engineering and enjoy programming. I hope to write many articles about aviation.

Sciences > Physics How airplanes generate lift

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I have read the other articles on this topic and some have good information and others just are out to lunch. Let us start with the man who enabled us to fly Bernoulli. I will summarize his principle which is that as a fluid (air is a fluid) speeds up the pressure decreases. It can be shown by taking a piece of paper holding it under your lower lip and blowing. You will watch the paper rise. How is this law important well if we decrease the pressure on the top of the wing, leaving the bottom pressure the same we will get a force upwards. This force is what all of us pilots call lift. So fr...

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