I've been reading about and watching tutorials on lift and I cannot totally understand what vortices have to do with lift. It seems you add "vortex generators" to wings to create vortexes and theoretically generator more lift, but I don't totally seem to understand the relation. I do understand that there is higher pressure under the wing and lower pressure above the wing and the wing-tips generate vortices, but I don't get how/why you would want vortex generators on your wing span.
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