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Upwash is the relative laminar airflow blowing fron underneth the wing which at the trailing edge moves upwords where as downwash is the laminar airflow blowing from the top of the wing moving downwards at the end of the trailing edge,,,,when they meet with each other ,it gives rise to vortices or eddis.

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