Faster-moving air pushes less — that's most of how a wing flies

Within a smooth-flowing fluid, speeding it up and lowering its pressure happen together: as air accelerates over a curved wing, the pressure above drops below the pressure underneath, and the imbalance lifts the wing. The same principle explains why a shower curtain billows inward and why two blown-apart papers drift together.

— Daniel Bernoulli, Hydrodynamica — 1738

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