>>11705073I said this in the last thread on this topic: wings work like a nozzle does. The majority of lift is generated by uneven pressure on the wing surfaces. If majority of lift was generated by deflected airflow, planes wouldn't be able to fly upside down. More importantly, by laws of drag, the thrust would have to be equal to whats needed for VTOL.
What wiki is saying is that equal transit time is false. Equal transit time is wrong. The air above the wing does travel faster then air below the wing, but it is not proportional to the distances they travel. There is nothing linking airflow above the wing to airflow below the wing. What the wing does is compress the streamlines above it so that the velocity must increase to conserve mass flow, lowering pressure in the process. Ask any pilot and/or aerospace engineer and they will tell you it's the top of the wing that's most important to generating lift.
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