OK, should have been more clear, but in a watercooling forum I didn't think anyone would really care. Net lift depends on more than simply making air take a longer (thus faster) path over the upper surface of the wing. Air has mass, so "plowing into it" with the lower surface also results in a lift force.
Would have been easier to simply say the conversion of static to dynamic pressure is V^2/ (2 * g) (ignoring density when using "head" as pressure). What fun is that?
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