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Homework Statement
A commercial airliner cruises at a speed of 284 meters per second. Each wing is 28.8 meters long and has an average width of 1.73 meters. The density of air at cruising altitude is 0.47 kilograms per cubic meter. How much lift force is generated by the wings if the air below the wings travels at the plane's cruising speed and the air above the wings travels 9.8 percent faster? Hint: Planes have two wings.
Homework Equations
Bernoulli's?
The Attempt at a Solution
No real clear idea where to start...