This engineering talk discusses aerodynamics, lift generation, and a couple of common myths that persist in the aviation community. The talk was presented at the July meeting of the Texas Flying Club (http://www.texasflyingclub.com/). As a general guideline, the audience was comprised of pilots, such that the mathematics and physics are not presented as a formal proof but presented with the intent to convey understanding. One key point made is that any discussion of aerodynamics concepts must be consistent with continuity of mass, momentum, and energy. A simple freestream, source/sink, and vortex model was presented to explore a consistent understanding of aerodynamics for aviation.