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> You’re assuming a lot here.

Actually, I am not. I am assuming only that, for an unstalled wing and a fixed flap setting at a given air density, lift increases with airspeed and also with angle of attack, plus Newtonian mechanics. Nothing here is contradicted by the video you linked to.

> It basically comes down to lift coefficient of the wings when a certain power magnitude of air is forced under them.

This appears to be gibberish.

> Power as P comes from lift and drag, you assume it’s from the wings, when it’s the thrust from the engine providing the compressed airflow (because we’re going fast) under and over those wings.

Ditto.

> I’ve been flying simulators and aircraft most my life as a hobby.

Well, I fly airplanes too. This just goes to show that you don't need to understand the physics of flight in order to learn how to pilot an airplane.




Great, you know the math then. You know how an airplane flies.




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