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Re:How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (1999) by onion2k on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:36AM (#10710312)
The impulse required to move particles of a fluid with zero viscosity would be zero, so the equal and opposite force that we call lift would also be zero. Consequently you couldn't fly if air had no viscosity.
Re:How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (1999) by dhimes on Thursday December 10, 2015 @08:16AM (#10710431)
If the particles have mass then the impulse wouldn't be zero.