I'm a bit worried that my flying manual opens with the Bernoulli Principle explanation of fixed-wing flight

@DanHulme as long as your wing understands lift, you'll be fine :)

@DanHulme Read a helicopter manual instead. "Flight is achieved when sufficient noise and flailing occurs to frighten enough air away from the vehicle..."

@voretaq7 uh... how do they account for the vortex ring?

@DanHulme What's really gonna shake your marble later on is that the explanation is probably incorrect ;)

no, that's what's shaking it now!

@DanHulme mine starts with verbatim regulations. :P

at least they're true

the problem I have with it is not the complexity of a two-paragraph simplification; it's the fact that it's wrong

:)

In my case, no, the book was so outdated it had quite a few regulations that have since been reworked.

@DanHulme That's part of the flailing :)

Or if you prefer:

@voretaq7 This one explains several other principles of life too.

@Farhan The prop revolves around its axis, everything behind that revolves around money.

@falstro That's isn't just specific about an airplane. ;)