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Music Hello, and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Aeronautical Engineering Division. Boy, we are diversified, aren't we? Wouldn't you get a million dollars? Car Talk Plaza. Yes, I would. To be able to play the guitar like that. Yeah. Especially since it wasn't the guitar. I'd give my right hand. To play the banjo like that. We're from the Aeronautical Engineering Department, and thanks to somebody.

Let me figure this out now, Richard McKenna, who sent us this.

He said, what follows is a short synopsis of a grant application I'm thinking of submitting to the government.

And what is, an approach to explaining how aircraft really are able to fly.

Yeah, because we know that all that other than the law is a lie.

Most aeronautical engineers and the general public associate the lift generated by a wing with the differential pressure between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing.

Nothing could be further from the truth, and God knows we know that.

Yes, we do.

In reality, the lift required to travel in a commercial aircraft is furnished by the passengers.

Now, it isn't.

Okay.

I love.

Wasn't quite what I was thinking, but I love theories that just shock you.

You know, when you hear the premise, you say, holy cow!

Here it is.

Further, the lift is inversely proportional to both the wing size and the distance to be traveled.

Farther, the distance to be traveled has a nonlinear relationship to lift as will become clear in the following explanation.

Is it anything further farther?

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