FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

On Dec 10, 7:46 am, Harry K wrote:
On Dec 10, 12:16 am, Ed Sullivan wrote:





lOn Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:45:43 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:

Some Other Guy wrote:
" Vacant lot wrote:
I don't understand the premise of the conveyor belt thing. If you are
talking about thrusting an aircraft forward, like a catapult, you already
know the answer, and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you already
know the answer. What are they trying to prove? I've seen the show but I
watch very little tv, have they run out of urban myths?

A friend of mine was absolutely convinced that if you are flying into a
strong headwind close to stall speed and make a U-turn, you will stall
(because now the wind is coming "from behind").

The basics of flight just isn't obvious to some people.

Yes, and they aren't obvious to others just as proper use of grammar
isn't obvious! :-)

Matt

Suggest you take a look at this site.www.aeroexperiments.org/brainteasers.shtml

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Ah, something to do while I am staring at that 6" snowfall with a
30'x100' driveway to be cleared including the plow berm from the state
which will contain all the snow off a 16' wide stretch of highway.

Gonna be a fun project for both of them

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Well, I read it. Reread it "he's full of it". Thought about it.
Took my 3 mile walk while thinking aobut it.

By golly he's right!

The problem is divorcing oneself from including ground speed into the
problem. No matter how many times I kept telling myself "ground speed
is not a factor in flight dynamics"' I still had problems seeing it.

Harry K