Bartosz Ciechanowski
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Airfoil
🕑 Added 2024-02-27 16:34:38 +0000 UTCThe dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling.
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Comments
Adrien Rey-Jarthon
This is an awesome explanation (as usual). I'm a (hobby) pilot 🛩️ and an engineer so this article stongly got my attention :) It's exactly the kind of course I love to read to learn more, with interative example and not too much math and physics formulas. Thanks ❤️
Ben Oliver
These articles really are reference pieces - well done! I'm no airfoil expert by any means but having read a bit around the topic so many people don't explain the importance of angle of attack in generating lift. To read some material, even what I was taught in school, you'd think that a symmetric wing would not fly at all. And yet they provide no explanation as to why a paper plane can go 'up' simply by having its wings folded
