So full disclosure I personally understand Bernoulli’s principle and understand how a wing works due to it.
Here’ is what I need. My 5 year old son loves planes, and loves watching birds fly. As such he is asking questions of how a bird’s wing works vs how an airplane’s wing works. I can’t seem to simplify down Bernoulli’s to the extent that he can understand how a wing works. So I’m coming to you all for advice.
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The wings are shaped so that air prefers to flow below the wing than above the wing. This creates a difference in pressure between above and below the wing that results in a force going upwards. That force depends on speed of moving air, or from a different perspective, the speed of the wing.
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