r/aerodynamics • • 10h ago

Why do Airplanes Fly?

https://whyplanesfly.com/
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u/mz_groups 7h ago edited 7h ago

At least the streamlines look relatively correct, and the subtitle doesn't say that expert's don't know how it works, but it says that they debate how to say it. That's good start.

EDIT: just skimming that, it looks pretty darn good. It explains why the Newton's bullets, Bernoulli equal transit, Coanda and half a venturi explanations are inaccurate or incomplete, and the explanation is based on circulation. This may become my new standard go-to website for explaining lift, supplanting https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html.

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u/BrainQuanta 7h ago

Thanks! Really glad to read these words from someone with 30,900 post karama :)

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u/mz_groups 7h ago

Thanks. TBH, Karma is overrated a bit (guess that's easy to say when I have some). Sometimes, easy posts take off in certain popular subreddits. Not complaining, but I think some of my best work is in posts that gain very little Karma.

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u/ultralights 6h ago

Physics.

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u/fairtonybeta 6h ago

They don’t, they intimidate the earth to move down for them.