I am 38 and I cannot understand how airplanes work (do not explain it to me.) https://twitter.com/RealThomasTH/status/1232293595882967042 …
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I’m a relatively smart person. I went to college. They are LYING about how airplanes work and hoping we do not notice.
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Replying to @baddestmamajama
They actually are. At least... to a large extent.
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Replying to @BlueDotNOkla @baddestmamajama
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
Hey, ever stuck your hand out the window of a car even though they tell you not to Well if you tilt your hand a little bit, the wind pushes your hand upward How about that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @baddestmamajama
I have a degree in physics and understand all of this. But she specifically said she didn't want explanations. I was just validating her belief she was being lied to.
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Yeah I'm just frustrated because they seem to intentionally make this harder to understand in elementary school than it actually is
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