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Old April 25th 08, 01:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
WingFlaps
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Default Lancair crash at SnF

On Apr 25, 11:23*pm, Stefan wrote:
WingFlaps schrieb:

A direction change in a
plane is always due to acceleration (and that means more drag). That's
Newtonian physics.


Right.


Now we are at first base!


You go from up wind direction (takeoff is usually
up wind) to turn in the wind direction to land down wind. There's an
acceleration, it is a change in _velocity_


Wrong.

I see the problem. You don't know what velocity is. It's a VECTOR. It
changes when you turn. If you don't understand this there's not much
point talking about anything that involves physics....

Cheers