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It works by moving against the air. The air's resistance creates most (or all) of the lifting force.
Lift is due mainly to the wing's angle of attack, forcing the air that the wing strikes to move downwards. The downward forcing of the air generates an equal-and-opposite upwards force that we call lift.
Be aware that the common and mistaken idea that lift is caused by "air moving faster over the curved top than the flat bottom" does not explain *most* of the lifting force.
If this were true, inverted flight would be impossible, as the "lift" would become "negative lift" and the airplane would plummet to the ground.
Some wings do give a small amount of lift at zero angle of attack, and this *is* due to the Bernoulli/venturi effect of differential camber.
If any lifting surface is an aerofoil, then some *do not* have differential camber (top and bottom curvatures).
There are *symmetrical* aerofoils (same top and bottom convex camber) flat ones (paper planes) and membranes (hang glider wings, parasails and kites).
To see this, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerofoil, check out the "lift and drag curves for a typical aerofoil" graphic.
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