Relativity
Random dabs in relativity.
pman, believe me, it's a can of worms. I've been thinking about it for years and gotten to succesive explanations, only to reject each as incomplete and sustitute for the next one.Lift is generated by your speed RELATIVE to the wind. Not by your ground speed. You're flying supported by the wind that surrounds you and move with it and inside it. Imagine a fly flying inside a railroad coach, it´s going perhaps a hundred MPH relative to ground but quite slow relative to wind. So the lift doesn't...