Increasing Wing Surface Area with Pores?

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I should add that this page shows that pressure reduction is created by the fluids inertial resistance to acceleration. This is most easily seen in the centripetal acceleration.
 
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it's all about aspect ratio ( size of wings,speed of aircraft)
 

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