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by bbojan 715 days ago
> How do you explain airplanes that can fly with wing with symmetrical cross-section profile?

> How do you explain airplanes flying upside-down?

Angle of attack is what causes lift. If you have a surface angled against the relative wind, it will produce lift.

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I know all of that. I wanted to provoke parent commenter to let them see that the Bernoulli effect doesn't explain my two examples.