Clare Snyder wrote this wierdosity....

nother way of looking at air racing - to go fast you need to reduce
LIFT to the absolute minimum required to keep the plane at the desired
altitude - so the LIFT REQUIRED is only the weight of the plane. The
lift PRODUCED increases dramatically with airspeed.

Clare... (sigh...) When, exactly, did you encounter any situation in
straight and level flight were one needed more lift than the weight of
the plane (or less)?

Level flight _describes_ a situation where lift is equal to weight.

It doesn't matter what speed range you're considering... you don't
"reduce lift" to fly level, you keep it constant.

The only part of what you said that made any sense at all was that you
may have to reduce the angle of attack to keep the lift constant at
higher speeds.

????

LLoyd