Me knowing this doesn't make me smarter than the guy who didn't know it. It just means that I spent more time studying physics than he did and when my profs told me the wrong things sometimes I didn't just accept it like he did when his prof told him that pic related is the way airplanes work.
What makes me smarter is not the stuff I've memorized that I read or that someone told me. What makes me smarter is the original ideas I've had. I don't think the other guy came up with any original chess strategies.
Ask yourself this: if it was the longer surface on the top of the wing and not the angle of attack sweeping the air down, then how do planes fly upside down?
Pic shows what I'm talking about about how the idea that finite elements at the front need to recombine at the back is unphysical.
How Planes Fly: What They Taught You In School Was Wrong
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-planes-fly-what-they-taught-you-in-school-was-wrong/