Wing dihedral

Originally Posted by Jose

Ignoring gravity for a moment, you can rotate the diagram any
which way, and the lift vectors will always be normal to the wing, and
will always have a net zero =torque= (and it's torque that would, by
this explanation, return the aircraft to level).

The point I was making is that this is not true. You can rotate the diagram any which way, but the lift vectors won't be the same. I think confusion is caused because you're looking at the diagram head-on, but the plane doesn't fly through the air that way. With dihedral, the AOA on each wing is only equal when they're level.