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gbj_tester in reply to @rodan

just use a flat plate

Even tilting a barn door creates lift by raising pressure on one side and lowering it on the other 🙂

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rodan in reply to @gbj_tester

Well, yes. But the Typhoon’s foreplane isn’t a flat plate because it wouldn’t be terribly efficient, and it also doesn’t produce lift due to a ‘reaction to the air hitting it at an angle’ as stated above. Nor do control surfaces generally.

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