Re: Airfoil lift, new article

[jlu <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Hi all-
    Anderson came and gave a lunch seminar in the high energy physics
division.  The
upshot is that he thinks that downwash is a better prime cause than is the
pressure
distribution around an airfoil.  He did have pictures showing that airflow
above and
below the wing does not "join" at the trailing edge.
                                                    Regards,
                                                                Jack

William Beaty wrote:

>   How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift
>   by D. Anderson, Fermilab, and S> Eberhardt, U. Wash Aero/Astro
>
>   http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/eberhardt/lift.htm
>
> An illustrated preprint, to be published in Sport Aviation magazine's
> February issue. It's a "conceptual physics" style of article.  The authors
> offer a Newtonian description of flight intended to replace the "popular"
> explanation of lifting force based on wing shape.
>
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