The secret of flight is revealed by computational solution of the Navier-Stokes equations describing the flow of air around a wing generating large lift at the price of small drag. For details see New Theory of Flight submitted to AIAA in May 2012
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Computational simulations by Johan Hoffman, Johan Jansson and Niklas Jansson.
The New Theory is presented in detail on