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Letter: Letters: Plane puzzle

Published 4 April 1992

From RICHARD WISEMAN

F. G. Gisley’s letter on the relative contributions made to lift by
reduced pressure on the upper surface of a wing and increased pressure on
the lower surface (Letters, 14 March) fails to answer the greatest aviation
mystery of all. If this is how aeroplanes fly, how do they fly upside down?

Richard Wiseman London

Issue no. 1815 published 4 April 1992

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