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But if you stop moving forward
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that pressure drop disappears, you go down.
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Forward motion is required for an airplane to stay up in the air,
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for a bird,
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most birds that stay up in the air.
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Hummingbirds can hover which is a remarkable physical achievement,
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and they do that because they can actually
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turn their wings in both directions.
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They can turn them upside down and that's shown in this diagram here,
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that they can make the wing go backward and forward,
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and turn it right side up and upside down,
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so they can create a motion