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One chapter from a larger site dedicated to explaining the physics of flight. Numerous diagrams show the flow of air around an airfoil.
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circulation and lift, air is a fluid, airfoils and airflow, cambered vs. symmetric airfoils, consistent laws of physics, flow patterns near a wing, frost on the wings, how a wing produces lift, induced drag, inverted flight, lift requires circulation & vortices, mechanically-induced circulation, momentum in the air, pressure patterns near a wing, soft-field takeoff, stall warning devices, stream line curvature, the kutta condition, the kutta-zhukovsky theorem, thin wings, wake turbulence, winglets, airfoils
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- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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