Aeronautical Engineering Help needed

"Larry Smith" wrote in message
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[Urbie flushed] larsen-tools" wrote:

"schlump" ??? I though the word was "schlub" (kind of a dumb slob who
can't
get out of his own way) .... does anyone here really know?
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[flushed again]

Which reminds me. Back in my days of naive and imperturbable enthusiasm I
used to pester Len Niemi, an aeronautical engineer, with all kinds of
questions about how to do this and that to an airplane to clean it up,
reduce the flat plate drag, make it go at just under the speed of sound on
85 HP, and reduce the stall speed to 10 knots. I can see his wry grin
right now.* He would always say in response to my proposal to add slots or
slats or gap seals or wheelpants, "Oh yeah, that will make it go .0017 miles
per hour faster."





*He's dead now and was one in a million. Shortly after he complained to
some of us that he had lost his ability to innovate, he came down with brain
cancer and shortly died. What a treasure of knowledge that man was!
Would we had somebody posting in RAH who could give good advice, rather than
the locker room skunks like BYB. So I beg pardon of Marc LeFebvre, who did
ask a legitimate question. Marc, Mike Arnold's tapes are the best source I
know for tweaking an airplane (a plastic one especially) for speed and
efficiency, and Arnold has a bibliography of all the great aerodynamicists
he consulted. Bon Voyage.
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"Successfully pass a course in statistical analysis and you may
begin to see the light. The odds of your one shot conversion
performing remotely close to time proven aircraft engines is
slim to none unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars
laying around and some bright engineers willing to baby sit
your R&D until the worst of the bugs are ironed out."
---BYB, who fancies himself an authority at English, skunking up the English
language.