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Aerodynamics

Why wings work — the honest version. The graph root: nearly every other domain's prerequisite chains terminate here.

PRIVATE

What Holds the Airplane Up

Lift, without the myths. Two honest ways to read the same event — and why the story about air racing over the longer top surface was never true.

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The Stall Has a Number

A wing stalls at an angle, not a speed. Your airplane has exactly one critical angle of attack — and the airspeed indicator is only a stand-in for it.

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Ground Effect: The Float, Explained

The runway isn't holding you up with a pillow of air. What actually changes in the last few feet — and why the handbook's "cushion" is a fine description of the feel and a poor description of the physics.

INSTRUMENT

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Induced Drag: Lift's Bill

Every pound of lift is invoiced. Where induced drag actually comes from, why it explodes at low speed, and what that does to an airplane on the back side of the power curve.

COMMERCIAL

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Circulation and the Kutta Condition

The theory under the theory — how aerodynamicists actually compute lift, why the math needs one honest confession at the trailing edge, and what viscosity secretly enforces.

CFI

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Teaching Lift Without Lying

A CFI's field guide to the lift lesson — the myths students arrive with, why each one survives, and a teaching sequence that never needs to be un-taught later.