Full aerodynamic force
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Full aerodynamic force is the resultant of all aerodynamic forces, acting on a body in a stream of air.
When only one such force is considered, full aerodynamic force is equivalent to drag.
Very often, full aerodynamic force is decomposed into several forces, usually in wind axes. Most notably, a wing is thought as generating separate lift and drag. In fact, these forces are merely a theoretical concept for convenience of engineering and analysis, with the difference between them being mostly semantic.
