Re: "How Things Work" Website

[William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Richard W. Tarara wrote:

> I looked briefly--reading through the how an airplane wing works.  Gave
> both the differential pressure and the tilted wing explanations and tried
> to differentiate the applicable regimes for both.  Not super technical but
> OK.

But the author used the false "airstreams must join at the trailing edge" 
argument.  I don't object to the "Bernoulli" viewpoint, but I do object to
the incorrect reasons given for there being a faster flow above the wing.


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