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You can angle your hand out of a speeding car window at 16° and note the upward force, though you’d be pushing it to call that actual lift in the technical sense. That’s what got me into aerodynamics, oddly enough. My final paper at uni was on the supercritical wing design, and some years later the A380 came along with the most elegant supercritical wing ever, it’s a thing of beauty.*
*Boeing did too, but they’re dicks so they can fuck off.