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base698 | 6 months ago

Weight of the air deflecting downward. Plain ole Newtonian equal and opposite reaction.

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rtkwe|6 months ago

It's both lower pressure above the wing (~20% of lift) and the reaction force from pushing air down (give or take the remaining 80% of lift). The main wrong thing is that the air travels faster because it has to travel farther causing the air to accelerate causing the lower pressure that's double plus wrong. It's a weird old misunderstanding that gets repeated over and over because it's a neat connection to attach to the Bernoulli Principal when it's being explained to children.

boombapoom|6 months ago

a classic example of how LLM's mislead people. They don't know right from wrong, they know what they have been trained on. Even with reasoning capabilities

casualscience|6 months ago

How can you create a pocket of 'lower pressure' without deflecting some of the air away? At the end of the day, if the aircraft is moving up, it needs to be throwing something down to counteract gravity.

datadrivenangel|6 months ago

But also pressure providing force. It's complicated.