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Old 23rd Jan 2006, 01:03
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Confabulous
 
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I've been reading Stick & Rudder lately, and by god it makes more sense then piling Bernoulli on top of Newton and having Navier-Stokes jumping on them, and oooh, don't forget Kutta and... hang on, why do I get the feeling that none of these guys have ever flown an airplane?

G is right - they all work. Who cares why, or how? When you're in the air, that is. Have you ever seen a test pilot in a spinning aircraft muttering to himself along the lines of 'that tosser Bernoulli, getting me into all this trouble. Now, how do I calculate my way out of a flat spin?'

I'll be building a Ban-Bi next year, and the most important instrument is going to be a tribute to the most practical pilot ever - Langweische. The instrument? An AoA indexer.

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