• Physics
• Published 2003
• DOI:10.1088/0031-9120/38/6/001

How do wings work

@inproceedings{Babinsky2003HowDW,
  title={How do wings work},
  author={Holger Babinsky},
  year={2003}
}

• Holger Babinsky

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The popular explanation of lift is common, quick, sounds logical and gives the correct answer, yet also introduces misconceptions, uses a nonsensical physical argument and misleadingly invokes Bernoulli's equation. A simple analysis of pressure gradients and the curvature of streamlines is presented here to give a more correct explanation of lift.