Why planes fly -- no, really!

Posted by Rudd-O at Oct 19, 2007 07:09 AM | Permalink

Filed under: physics, science

All my life I've been convinced that the Bernoulli effect (air travels faster above the wing) makes planes take off and fly. Turns out, I'm wrong -- though the Bernoulli effect collaborates, it's the Coanda effect that actually makes most of the work.

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