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A good way to visualize it, I've found, is imagine the low pressure area created by the wing as a bubble attached to the aircraft, "sucking" the aircraft up. Imagine the air going under the wing as analogous to the surface of a lake.

The more the plane diverges from parallel to the airstream, the stronger the tendency for the bubble to suck through the "shadow" created in the airstream, and the plane to "skip" on the surface (the air getting pushed under the airfoil).

In reality, these are two different ways of illustrating the same force. This visualization though, let's you pick out two different aspects.

Air is a fluid. Just like water will follow the edge of a pan when you pour it, the curvature of an airfoil does the same thing with air flowing by.

Those nacelles basically enhance the surface area across which that pressure differential acts through. In short, generating extra lift, "pulling" the plane up more, (or pushing, if you prefer looking at it from the skipping stone aspect) creating more lift, all the way into a stall condition.




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