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by m4nu3l 314 days ago
Very funny. The very first answer it gave to illustrate its "Expert knowledge" is quite common, and it's wrong. What's even funnier is that you can find why on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#False_explanation... What's terminally funny is that in the visualisation app, it used a symmetric wing, which of course wouldn't generate lift according to its own explanation (as the travelled distance and hence air flow speed would be the same). I work as a game physics programmer, so I noticed that immediately and almost laughed. I watched only that part so far while I was still at the office, though.
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A symmetric wing will not produce lift a zero angle of attack. But tilted up it will. The distance over the top will also increase, as measured from the point where the surface is perpendicular to the velocity vector.

That said, yeah the equal time thing never made any sense.

Of course, I'm just pointing out that the main explanation it gave was the equal transit time and added the angle of attack only "slightly increases lift", which quite clashes with the visualisation IMO.
AGI