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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Pretty basic stuff:



Where it get really complicated is the multitude of wing designs for various types of aircraft.

I think they were looking for specifically how the lift is generated.

Growing up, this was the only thing that I'd heard.



But then about 2007, I took a course on a whim, and it included the following.
That course taught the following

Essentially that the downwash from the wing and Newtons third law caused the lift on the wing.

I've heard that it's not that simple and is a combination of Bernoulli and Newton that make the whole thing work.