¶ Airplane Flight as Lift
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“It appeared and as yet appears to follow, in conventional, state-licensed structural engineering, that if tension is secondary and local in all men’s structural projections, that tension must also be secondary in man’s philosophic reasoning. As a consequence, the popular conception of airplane flight was, at first and for a long time, erroneously explained as a compressional push-up force operating under the plane’s wing. It ‘apparently’ progressively compressed the air below it, as a ski compresses the snow into a grooved track of icy slidability. The scientific fact remains, as wind-tunnel experiments proved, that three-quarters of the airplane’s weight support is furnished by the negative lift of the partial vacuum created atop the airfoil. This is simply because, as Bernoulli showed, it is longer for the air to go around the top of the foil than under the foil, and so the same amount of air in the same amount of time had to be stretched thinner, ergo vacuously, over the top. This stretching thinner of the air and its concomitant greater effectiveness of inter-positioning of bodies (that is, the airplane in respect to Earth), is our same friend, the astro- and nucleic-tensional integrity of dynamic interpatterning causality.”
¶ Citations
- SYNERGETIC text at Sec. \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-640.03}{640.03}, 4 Oct’72
