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by wbeaty 1690 days ago
I don't see it.

"Longer path" is an incorrect explanation for why the air above the airfoil moves faster. Yet the air above the airfoil really does move faster, as that webpage correctly describes. (That webpage doesn't say why the air moves faster! Thus they avoid the "equal transit fallacy.")

- "Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing."

True. Giving the airfoil some camber will change the upper/lower velocities, making it produce lift, even at zero attack. No mention of "equal transit-time."