Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:08 pm
#1901566
I may be about to announce to the world that I'm thick, but here goes
When I was a kid in the back of the car I used to hold my hand out the window and see that when I lifted my hand at the wrist my hand shot up in the wind and the same in reverse.
So this is how I imagined aircraft flew.
Then I read all the books to get my PPL and was taught that that wasn't it, Bernoulli's theory was in use here and the lower pressure above the wing caused it to get sucked up, not pushed up. This didn't feel right but I accepted it.
Now I'm reading 'Stick and Rudder' by Wolfgang Langewiesche which was recommended to read and he explains it the way I used to imagine it.
My question is:
How do you all deep down feel that it's happening?
They can't both be in action, one is and one isn't surely?
(I also appreciate that it kinda doesn't matter either way as long as you understand some principle of how a wing flies then you are good.)
When I was a kid in the back of the car I used to hold my hand out the window and see that when I lifted my hand at the wrist my hand shot up in the wind and the same in reverse.
So this is how I imagined aircraft flew.
Then I read all the books to get my PPL and was taught that that wasn't it, Bernoulli's theory was in use here and the lower pressure above the wing caused it to get sucked up, not pushed up. This didn't feel right but I accepted it.
Now I'm reading 'Stick and Rudder' by Wolfgang Langewiesche which was recommended to read and he explains it the way I used to imagine it.
My question is:
How do you all deep down feel that it's happening?
They can't both be in action, one is and one isn't surely?
(I also appreciate that it kinda doesn't matter either way as long as you understand some principle of how a wing flies then you are good.)