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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps
wrote: On Apr 25, 10:16*am, Stefan wrote: WingFlaps schrieb: (the stall is now damn close -better hope there's no significant wind) ... Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed. Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns. Try reading the statement again, here it is: "Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed." Now perhaps you would like to revise some physics and try to critcise it for us? I await your stumbling analysis of my words with mild amusement. Cheers ***************************************** Long time ago in the 30's I saw on a couple of occasions a Cub take off in a strong head wind 25+ mph and make a 180 degree turn to down wind. They then started losing altitude and mushed into the ground nose high. Any idea why? Pilot's said they had full throttle and proper RPM showed on engines until impact. Big John Big John |
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Big John wrote in
: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote: On Apr 25, 10:16*am, Stefan wrote: WingFlaps schrieb: (the stall is now damn close -better hope there's no significant wind) ... Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed. Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns. Try reading the statement again, here it is: "Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed." Now perhaps you would like to revise some physics and try to critcise it for us? I await your stumbling analysis of my words with mild amusement. Cheers ***************************************** Long time ago in the 30's I saw on a couple of occasions a Cub take off in a strong head wind 25+ mph and make a 180 degree turn to down wind. They then started losing altitude and mushed into the ground nose high. Any idea why? Pilot's said they had full throttle and proper RPM showed on engines until impact. Wind gradient. As they climbed, the wind would increase and they'd lose some airspeed until they were on the backside of the power curve.same thing would happen if you took off with strong tailwind in the first place. Also, the poorer climb angle even without the wind gradient would cause many to get the nose up a bit too much as well if they were not used to it. Bertie |
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![]() "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message .. . Big John wrote in : On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote: On Apr 25, 10:16 am, Stefan wrote: WingFlaps schrieb: (the stall is now damn close -better hope there's no significant wind) ... Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed. Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns. Try reading the statement again, here it is: "Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed." Now perhaps you would like to revise some physics and try to critcise it for us? I await your stumbling analysis of my words with mild amusement. Cheers ***************************************** Long time ago in the 30's I saw on a couple of occasions a Cub take off in a strong head wind 25+ mph and make a 180 degree turn to down wind. They then started losing altitude and mushed into the ground nose high. Any idea why? Pilot's said they had full throttle and proper RPM showed on engines until impact. Wind gradient. As they climbed, the wind would increase and they'd lose some airspeed until they were on the backside of the power curve.same thing would happen if you took off with strong tailwind in the first place. Also, the poorer climb angle even without the wind gradient would cause many to get the nose up a bit too much as well if they were not used to it. Bertie Turn your head 90 degrees and it will change the dynamics of all of it. That's the way wind tunnels work, child. |
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"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in news:3jcRj.58626$QC.41863
@newsfe20.lga: "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message .. . Big John wrote in : On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote: On Apr 25, 10:16 am, Stefan wrote: WingFlaps schrieb: (the stall is now damn close -better hope there's no significant wind) ... Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed. Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns. Try reading the statement again, here it is: "Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed." Now perhaps you would like to revise some physics and try to critcise it for us? I await your stumbling analysis of my words with mild amusement. Cheers ***************************************** Long time ago in the 30's I saw on a couple of occasions a Cub take off in a strong head wind 25+ mph and make a 180 degree turn to down wind. They then started losing altitude and mushed into the ground nose high. Any idea why? Pilot's said they had full throttle and proper RPM showed on engines until impact. Wind gradient. As they climbed, the wind would increase and they'd lose some airspeed until they were on the backside of the power curve.same thing would happen if you took off with strong tailwind in the first place. Also, the poorer climb angle even without the wind gradient would cause many to get the nose up a bit too much as well if they were not used to it. Bertie Turn your head 90 degrees and it will change the dynamics of all of it. That's the way wind tunnels work, child. Yeh, sure fjukktard. Bertie |
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On Apr 27, 3:43 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Big John wrote : On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:55 -0700 (PDT), WingFlaps wrote: On Apr 25, 10:16 am, Stefan wrote: WingFlaps schrieb: (the stall is now damn close -better hope there's no significant wind) ... Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed. Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns. Try reading the statement again, here it is: "Now we add in the energy losses from having to accelerate with the wind and to glide speed." Now perhaps you would like to revise some physics and try to critcise it for us? I await your stumbling analysis of my words with mild amusement. Cheers ***************************************** Long time ago in the 30's I saw on a couple of occasions a Cub take off in a strong head wind 25+ mph and make a 180 degree turn to down wind. They then started losing altitude and mushed into the ground nose high. Any idea why? Pilot's said they had full throttle and proper RPM showed on engines until impact. Wind gradient. As they climbed, the wind would increase and they'd lose some airspeed until they were on the backside of the power curve.same thing would happen if you took off with strong tailwind in the first place. Also, the poorer climb angle even without the wind gradient would cause many to get the nose up a bit too much as well if they were not used to it. Bertie I think someone screwed up. As he turned, his airspeed would remain constant and in the turn he would begin to move sideways over the ground, and as he completed the turn his groundspeed would be much higher but his airspeed the same as before. The airplane has lots of time to make the shift in direction and it's not an instantaneous change in vectors. The sideways drift over the ground (which is mentioned here only as a reference for visual flying, not that the airplane cares about the earth's mass) might have caused him to think he was slipping big time, so he pumped in a bunch of rudder, skidding it badly and spun it in. And that's the reason we teach "Illusions Caused by Drift." Dan |
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