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Old 11th Sep 2006, 09:44
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Genghis the Engineer
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As I said, it's not important that you can explain lift clearly - it's important that you can predict it accurately.

Through a combination of computer modelling and wind-tunnelling, fortunately we're pretty good at that nowadays.

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