Doubter-Listers:  I think maybe you all haven't thought through Paul the Great's deep insight as he revealed the true nature of the mystery of flight, to wit:  air inside the wing pushes up and the plane rises!  Now before you all spend countless hours thinking of reasons why this might not be true, consider briefly what is going on here.  The air inside the wing has no reference to the world beyond the wing skin, no windows and no instruments, so the only sensation it can be aware of is an acceleration, cause by either thrust or gravity.  Since the only constant here is gravity because there is no acceleration by thrust in 1G, stabilized level flight over a flat earth with no atmosphere, etc, well then clearly the air in our wings has an ability to sense and react against gravity.  Eurika: the air inside our wings is a powerful anti-gravity devise--it has been there all along.  So thank you Mr Lipps, I have installed a valve in my newly finished Lancair IV wings and am capturing some of that magic in sealed containers to be marketed at Star Trek conventions as the enabler for the future development of an effective warp drive.

paul the lessor