Well, OK, Nick - as I said before, your experience speaks for itself and you've been a hell of a long way further in the aviation game than I have, although I've done a fair bit of varied and interesting flying in my time.
I do know a little bit about mechanics though, having a science degree majoring in physics, for what it's worth, and that's why I've been challenging some of the stuff that has come up in this thread.
Check your own diagram back in the early stages of this thread - where's weight? That's the flaw. You are entitled to speak with a great deal of authority, of course, and all respect to your achievements, but that's a fundamental omission that skews the rest of the argument.
It's no biggie in the grand scheme of things, I guess, but when you come in with statements like this:
"Until you guys understand wat a free body diagram is, it is not terribly useful to sketch, debate and sketch again, fun though it might be.", I feel I have to respond - diagrams at dawn at ten paces, perhaps!
