Birds use their wings to rise up. They push air down. If They push enough air down they can rise up. They are not lifted by the air because air cannot lift things anymore than water can lift a swimmer.
An aircraft rises because the wing creates suction so that the air under the wing pushes the wing up. The wing is not lifting anything. The air under the wing is doing the work and the lack of air, the suction created as a wing moves through the air. The wing is literally sucked upwards by the power of the suction created by the wing. The wing does a bit of compressing the air under the wing but the big upwards motion comes from the lack of air on the top of the wing. The more suction the wing creates the more the wing moves upwards. The wing is literally being sucked up.
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