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As a purely conceptual illustration of the fact that the air must be deflected downwards by the wing, sure. It doesn't really work, though. For example, there's no reason for the air to move faster over the top of the wing in your scenario, and without that you'd underestimate the amount of lift a wing actually generates.


> there's no reason for the air to move faster over the top of the wing in your scenario

I suppose the compressed air at the top of the wing will find its way into a vacuum and travel a bit faster than the air at the bottom that's encountering normal pressure, but I'm honestly out of my depth at this point. Not sure if the air coming in on the left cancels that out either, I'd have to run the equations. https://webwhiteboard.com/board/KhTCsoDvhyGTy0uJtmPpQNhvldF1...




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