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>If you look at airflow over an asymmetric airfoil [1], the air does move faster over the top.

What is your point? Where do you think lift comes from?

My point is the wing causes a pressure differential by redirecting air. Air speed changes are a side effect of lift not a cause of lift.

The other way around is something (magic fairies?) causes an air speed imbalances, that causes a pressure differential.



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