I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I’ve seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just… Soars… Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf… It’s crazy. With how much these things weigh, it’s insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we’re flying now. Like wow… Dude crazy.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    yeah, I’m with you, the Newtonian makes more practical end complete sense to me sense to me as an explanation for a lift.

    maybe the confusion comes from calling the motion of pushing air down “lift”

    push-off.

    hm. what the heck is an appropriate antonym for lift…

    spring-hold.

    oh, buoyancy?

    maybe we should switch our talk from lift to buoyancy.

    rather than generating lift, velocity through the air generates aerodynamic buoyancy due to the increase in downward pressure, or rather the compressed air beneath the airfoil.