No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

by _ttg • 5 years ago

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scientificamerican.com

macilacilove• 5 years ago

"The page you were looking for could not be found. " Maybe someone found out since then. :)

_ttg• 5 years ago

Oops. submitted the wrong link and it doesn't seem like I can edit the url https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

PaulHoule• 5 years ago

Delete it and try again.

The title sounds a little cringeworthy to me because it sounds like it is about the fake controversy about the Bernoulli Principle.

The Bernoulli Principle doesn't explain lift from aircraft wings at all (particularly in that the 'angle-of-attack' is so critical to lift) and all reference to it should have been excised circa 1960 but oddly it has survived in this narrative that there are two competing theories about lift that has chronically survived in places like the manual for the 1980 Microsoft Flight Simulator.

No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

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