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Why does the argument for Newton's 3rd law for lift of wings still exist?
Everybody has own mental model, and we like to simplify things, so sometime it works, sometime not. With your symmetrical air-foil you may notice that some explanation doesn't work well on such case.
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Why does the argument for Newton's 3rd law for lift of wings still exist?
Lift is produced by two effects: Camber and angle of attack.
Symmetrical airfoils do without camber and rely purely on angle of attack.
How this works is explained here.
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Why does the argument for Newton's 3rd law for lift of wings still exist?
I would argue that the airfoil meets the relative wind with either a positive or negative angle of attack, causing a pressure (force) differential between its two sides. That pressure differential ...
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