Hang about for a minute. "How lift is created". Isn't that a bit of a "miss noma"? I have always understood that "energy can neither be CREATED nor destroyed, merely converted from one form to another", (unless we want to introduce “entropy” into the debate). If that premise is “kept in mind” then the way in which a foil “converts” one (or several) sources of energy/mass, into the “lift” that an aerofoil can use for the desired “work” should then become a little easier to understand? (If you are going to “get geeky” lets really get geeky??) he he he. Or if we want to talk "creation" do we introduce "God" into the debate???