Jim Logajan wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:
I've been watching some of these folks who are right on in the physics
department taking on this hot rabbit character on the lift issue.
Why the living hell anyone in their right mind would take the time to
deal with this from a serious standpoint is beyond my level of
comprehension.

I obviously can only speak for myself, but I post under the expectation
that the reading audience is more than just the person whose post I'm
replying to. For example, when I posted references to some of the material
on NASA web pages at least one person said they appreciated the references
and said they came away with a better understanding of lift because of that
material. And unlike the OP, left it at that.

Just because the OP of this or any other thread refuses to budge doesn't
mean followups are entirely futile. At least that is what I'd like to
believe. (But I do sometimes make the mistake that I should try to budge
the OP and then I post more than I should. Say one's say and try to leave
it at that - that's my modest goal.)

I've never seen so much utter bull**** in my life on a
serious flying forum.

This is a serious flying forum? Shirley you're joking.

Jim, if you think that dealing with this nutcase is beneficial to the
rest of the group then I'd be the last guy in hell to tell you to stop
doing it. All I'm saying to you and to others having serious science
knowledge is that the answers to this moron's constant repetition of
utter crap can be found in a single publication; that publication is
"Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators". A simple link to this book is all
that's necessary for anyone to post to steer this creep in the right
direction.
Pardon me for saying this, but I've been teaching aerodynamics for 50
years and from my point of view, what you are doing in sparring with
this character is useless on the educational line as his entire purpose
in posting to the forum is to push himself as a "cut above" the people
answering him.
If it pleases you to take this bait, as I said, I'm not the internet
police. Go get um!
Just be advised, most of the people who post on these forums are fairly
well versed on the issues surrounding lift and don't require additional
tutoring on the issue.
Assuming you find a few who do need this tutoring, I suggest you
consider simply pointing them to the source I have mentioned as a more
bandwidth friendly way of "helping educate them".
All this having been said, I realize that you are not me and have a mind
of your own fully capable of dealing with things like this and the final
decision as to whether or not you're being used as cannon fodder by this
idiot will of course be yours.
Personally, I like Bertie's method the best; "Nope!" :-)))
DH

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Dudley Henriques