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If you feed the gremlins hot chili with lots of beans, the
rocket like exhaust provided lift and propulsion. "Jose" wrote in message om... | OK, Jose (just had to say that one) explain delta wings. | | http://ernest.isa-geek.org | | Oh, that's a tough one. Looking at the CAD drawings, I was at first | inclined towards the helicopter methods (it's ugly; the earth repels it) | but the composite of several deltas belies that simpleminded conclusion. | It resembles a bird in flight, maybe the air can be fooled into | thinking feathers are on their way... but that requires the air to do | the lifting. We know this can't be true. Obviously some out-of-the-box | thinking is in order. Fortunately I'm up to the task; people have been | trying to put me back in my box for ages. | | I am drawn to the 200 mph cruise speed; this is pretty fast for a single | engine prop plane. Maybe we are thinking this whole lift thing | backwards. An airplane's natural habitat is the air, and it =wants= to | go into the air. Very often what brings airplanes down are gremlins, | usually traced to the control system, the avionics, or even the pilot | himself. The object of the propeller is to shake the gremlins off the | plane and allow the plane to achieve its natural state. Since gremlins | are pretty fast, the airplane has to also move forward to keep them off | the plane. | | This is a homebuilt, which is the natural habitat of gremlins. So, it | has to move =very= fast in order to shake them off and keep them off. | | When you consider how hard gremlins are, and how soft feathers are, it's | a natural that feathers repel gremlins, and lift is sometimes | erroniously attributed to feathers. Many researchers have been down | this path, and there is a large body of accepted literature in support | of the feathers theory. At low speeds, the feather theory and the | gremlin theory give pretty much the same answers, but at high enough | speeds the relationship breaks down and the feather theory gives | erronious answers. This is where gremlin theory shines (it should be | noted that lift fairies are just gremlins gone bad). | | Gremlin theory holds the potential for explaining a lot of aviation that | is otherwise unexplainable, but experiments are difficult and fraught | with peril. However, I would be happy to conduct the appropriate | research. Send grant money to Jose, care of Usenet. | | Jose | -- | Money: what you need when you run out of brains. | for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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