If you create a cambre with your hands, that's an ærofoil; which gets lift—insufficient lift—but lift.
Flight is vague. I'd argue that as long as your horizontal velocity exceeds your vertical, it works like an æroplane. In the case of helicopters, it's hovering.
as long as your horizontal velocity exceeds your vertical, it works like an æroplane
That's gliding. There's a reason there's a different word for that. Flight means the ability to achieve stable altitude by means of mechanical motion of the object. Hence why a balloon floats instead of flies. A parachuter ascends. A glider glides.
True. I forgot that equilibrium exists, somehow.
Nice chat.
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