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Surely it does move faster, because it's lower pressure/you're putting less resistance on it?

If I have a wing shaped like ∖, air going in -> direction, which is what you need to generate lift with a flat wing, then the air on the bottom is running into the wing and slowing down, while the air on the top is being pulled into the region the wing swept clear of particles and speeding up.



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