RE: How Does A Knife Edge Work?
Take a look at an airplane fuselage. Look at it from the top. Big and fat in the front with a large radius. Tapered back to a point in the rear. It's an airfoil. Not a very long airfoil--but it's an airfoil.
The whole plane is an airfoil. Look at the prop. Rotating airfoil.
How it flies or at what attitude it flies just depends on how you orient it.