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Information Junky
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: an island, upper left coast, USA
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Funny, while I've had applied aerodynamics during engineering school, the best explanation that I got was earlier as a kid, and was from an MJohnson who worked as a model maker at Boeing wind tunnel.
Something like, the air, being forced up and over the wing top creates a tunnel of vacuum along the length of the wing. -which also explains why elliptical wings and winglets work to 'pinch-off that tunnel of vacuum.
Hope that helps the 8 year old.
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