what the heck is lift?

buttman wrote:

So whats the deal here? Are we just thinking of two diffrent concepts?

Nonsense. Don't listen to what any of these people are saying here.
Lift is produced by the action of millions of tiny gnomes standing on
each other's shoulders. The thing is they're not too strong so you have
to keep moving because each gnome can only hold you up for a brief
instant and pass you on to the next one. Larger wings allow you to
spread the load out over more gnomes, thus creating more "lift." Spins
happen when you move the controls the wrong way and scare the gnomes.
Some people don't accept this because they can't see the gnomes, well,
you can't see air particles either. Even the Ph.D. guys can't explain
it, but any fool can see that planes fly. Gnomes!

-cwk.