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I do not happen to be a particular fan of the Bernoulli-based explanation
for lift and much prefer transfer of momentum arguments. On the other
hand, I thought the explanation provided at the "How Things Work" website
was rather good.
I'm curious about why you call the "airstreams must join at the trailing
edge" argument "false." In the steady state, laminar flow regime in which
the Bernoulli principle holds (and which is, admittedly, questionable for
airplane wings) mustn't this be the case?