In college, freshman year, first semester sometime around thanksgiving we studied basic (very basic) fluid mechanics. We studied Bernoulli and everything that has meant in the last few hundred years. We studied the airfoil and how and why it works.
It's all quite easy to understand.
Fast moving air exerts less pressure on a surface than slow moving. Fine. That makes sense. Get a big wing and it will exert enough force to lift whatever you need it to.
Not long ago I moved and I flew a very long ways.
I stood there at the airport watching planes take off.
I understand the physics.
I appreciate how much engineering it took to make the Boeing 767.
It's still magic that it actually flies.
It's so heavy and air is so thin.
Amazing.
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