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What Bernoulli Missed About Flight

GrokSoup writes: "How come planes can fly upside-down? The Bernoulli principle as applied to flight -- air moves faster over the top of the wing creates low pressure, sucking the plane upward -- always bugged me because it didn't explain inverted flight. Turns out I'm not the only one. The current New Scientist has an entertaining interview with Fermilab physicist David Anderson who explains why the Bernoulli explanation is only partial: lift from wing-shape is the least significant component of lift. Much more important is the wing's angle of attack."

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