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Originally Posted by skyking
The "effective flat angle"? Where did you find that engineering gem?
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Are you really not understanding my point? Look at the wing. See how the top slopes backward? That sloping surface is what creates most of the lift. The chord angle is arbitrary in this discussion if that slope is the most important ****ing surface.
You can't say that since the wing is creating lift when the chord is horizontal, that must mean that the Bernoulli effect is the source of lift. The chord angle and the lift generating surface angle are two different things.
Just because the wing chord is an engineering metric doesn't mean you can't apply common sense and understand how the wing actually works and why a "horizontal" wing is creating lift by pulling air downward.