It looks like something similar to wilful ignorance on your side, Blacksmith. I don't believe any of this FE nonsense, but at least see what jroa is trying to say.
Take a large, vertically oriented propeller/fan(like the ones where you can simulate falling through the atmosphere) or a vertical aerodynamic tunnel. This will be an equivalent of the aetheric wind.
Now take a large, thick mattress. This will be the FE. Place it in the air current and it will be lifted and go up until the force pushing it is too weak(which for some reason doesn't happen in the FE model...).
If you were sitting on the mattress, you would feel it pushing against you. If you held something and dropped it, it will hit the mattress, as the mattress is accelerating upwards while the thing you dropped is no longer affected, directly or indirectly(through your hand), by the wind. You are not pushed up by the wind directly because the mattress shields you from it while it is being pushed by it. If you ripped a piece of mattress and dropped it, it will still drop, as there is no wind blowing on it either way.