I am 38 and I cannot understand how airplanes work (do not explain it to me.) https://twitter.com/RealThomasTH/status/1232293595882967042 …
There are two oversimplified and incorrect ways to explain how airplane wings work, one involving the shape of the wing (camber) and one involving how it's tilted (angle of attack)
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For some reason textbooks focus on the first one even though it's harder to explain and therefore the explanation is more wrong The diagram they give you showing the air molecules being more spread out and talking to you about Bernoulli's Principle
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Angle of attack is way easier to explain based on personal experience and a lot of planes exist with flat wings that rely just on that so I dunno why they don't focus on it
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