O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

[Frank C.]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

My two cents. While studying analysis of vertebrate structure at UC Davis, an upper division zoology course, my Professor, Dr. Milton Hildebrand, explained why birds get lift from the structure of their wings. He held the belief that the air flow traveling over the underside of the wing was faster than air flow over the top, creating a pressure differential, thus creating lift. I am not an aeronautical engineer, so I might be full of misinformation so to speak. LOL.

Frank C.

[Skyracer]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

Actually, the wing/airfoil only provides a place to attach the black thread that "magically" lifts the aircraft. That is also why helicopters are limited in formation flying and the maneuvers they can perform, the black thread gets tangled up and the helicopter falls from the sky.

[Bob]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

Actually, the wing/airfoil only provides a place to attach the black thread that "magically" lifts the aircraft. That is also why helicopters are limited in formation flying and the maneuvers they can perform, the black thread gets tangled up and the helicopter falls from the sky.

do black helicopters use white thread?

[Eric J.]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

these theories do not apply to rotary wing aircraft...
Helicoptors are so ugly that the ground rejects them

Anything that must inharmoniously & continually screw itself into the sky to remain aloft is sorcery and born of Satan himself.

[Frank C.]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

Anything that must inharmoniously & continually screw itself into the sky to remain aloft is sorcery and born of Satan himself.

My son and his wife are helicopter pilots. Hopefully it is not sorcery born of Satan that keeps them aloft. Then again the rotor has something called the JC nut. LOL.

Frank C.

[TomL]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

You guys are all way off base. It's really all about Lift Demons and Thrust Pixies...

http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/liftdemon.htm

TomL

[AirDOGGe]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

My son and his wife are helicopter pilots. Hopefully it is not sorcery born of Satan that keeps them aloft. Then again the rotor has something called the JC nut. LOL.

Frank C.

I salute them both. A helicopter pilot's license is quite a feather in one's cap to have. I'm sure you're very proud.


Yep. Its the Jesus-nut that keeps Satan at bay and maintains the balance of power between the Heaven and Hell that is the rotary-wing helicopter.

Ah-men.

[First time Juke]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9035708/Cambridge-scientist-debunks-flying-myth.html

[skater]

Re: O/T..How does a wing REALLY create lift?

Best semi-layperson explanation of how wings work (circulation theory) that I've read so far.

Circulation theory is the mathematical method that airfoil designers use.

http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html

And, even if Einstein didn't know it, aerodynamicists knew that the "equal transit time" rule was a total myth as long as the phenomenon of lift have been studied in a scholarly manner.