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Backwash Causes Lift?
Dan Luke writes:
Then why does the wing stall and cease lifting when flow separates from the upper surface? Because it is no longer accelerating air efficiently downward. |
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Backwash Causes Lift?
On 3 Oct, 05:54, Mxsmanic wrote:
Dan Luke writes: Then why does the wing stall and cease lifting when flow separates from the upper surface? Because it is no longer accelerating air efficiently downward. Wrong again, fjukktard. Bertei |
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Backwash Causes Lift?
Dan Luke wrote:
"Le Chaud Lapin" wrote: Obviously, any air above the wing can only result in a force downward on top of the wing. The only force causing the plane to want to move upward comes from beneath the wing. The effect of any air above the wing is to cause rarefication above the wing, resulting in lower pressure, thereby giving the 14.7lbs/in^2 (plus) to do its work. That "reaction" coming from downward movement of air seems just plain silly to me. Then why does the wing stall and cease lifting when flow separates from the upper surface? It doesn't cease lifting. It doesn't lift as hard, and not hard enough to support the airplane, but the force doesn't magically go away. Matt |
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"Dan Luke" wrote in
: "Le Chaud Lapin" wrote: Obviously, any air above the wing can only result in a force downward on top of the wing. The only force causing the plane to want to move upward comes from beneath the wing. The effect of any air above the wing is to cause rarefication above the wing, resulting in lower pressure, thereby giving the 14.7lbs/in^2 (plus) to do its work. That "reaction" coming from downward movement of air seems just plain silly to me. Then why does the wing stall and cease lifting when flow separates from the upper surface? Actually, that's not the definition of the stall, seperation occurs just after the stall with most airfoil/planform combinations and in most flight situations, ordinarily. Some wings will have seperation at the stall, but I've never flown one. The defintion is an abrupt loss of lift when the critical angle is reached. Seperation usually occurs immidiatly after (*but not always, for instance, deltas will continue to have smooth flow way below he point they will actually keep flying) This is not to be confused with the back siide of the drag curve, BTW. Having said all hat, there are some reputable design texts that define stall as the point at which the bubble breaks down and buffet occurs and as far as I know, this doesn't disturb engineers (of which I am not one, BTW, so take this all with a large grain of salt) any more than a "po- tay-to, po-tah-to" argument would. Bottom line is you're interested in keeping your airplane from going down and the point at which the wing ceases to do what you would like it to do is the point at which you're most interested. Make sense? If it does I must not have explained it well. Bertie |
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Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
Hi, Student pilot here, self-teaching using the Jeppensen Private Pilot Kit after taking ground school. I read in the book that combustion "creates" energy, which is technically not true, but I decided to ignore it since the pictures are sooo pretty. Now, in Chapter 3, section about airfoils, it actually says: "In addition to the lowered pressure, a downward-backward flow of air also is generated from the top surface of the wing. The reaction to this downwash results in an upward force on the wing which demnstrates Newtons' third law of motion. This action/reaction principle also is apparent as the airstream strikes the lwoer surface of the wing when inclinded at a small angle (the angle of attack) to its direction of motion. The air is forced downward and therefore causes an upward reaction resulting in positive lift." IMHO, the latter part of this paragraph is correct, but the former part is wrong. Obviously, any air above the wing can only result in a force downward on top of the wing. The only force causing the plane to want to move upward comes from beneath the wing. The effect of any air above the wing is to cause rarefication above the wing, resulting in lower pressure, thereby giving the 14.7lbs/in^2 (plus) to do its work. That "reaction" coming from downward movement of air seems just plain silly to me. I am also inclined to take issue with the explanations of Bernouilli's Principle which I see often in the literature, but that's a different subject. [Note, I don't doubt Bernouilli's Principle, I just think there is more to it than the way it is being described in context of flying.] -Le Chaud Lapin- Please don't take this the wrong way but I'm sure you would have passed me up as a potential flight instructor. :-)))) -- Dudley Henriques |
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On Oct 2, 10:24 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Please don't take this the wrong way but I'm sure you would have passed me up as a potential flight instructor. :-)))) I nominate Anthony! Heh. I knew going into ground school that the focus would be flying, not aero/astro, so I was not disappointed with the course. By rushing us, the instructor gave us a broad overview of what we should know. This has been hugely beneficial for my learning. Makes going through it again, slowly, with physics book nearby very pleasurable. -Le Chaud Lapin- |
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Then there's the Mx medical advice column, physics advice -- I'm
waiting for a unified field theory, or maybe a proposed standard of care for depression. I had a thought for what would be the longest thread ever in this newsgroup -- "The collected corrections of Mx statements". Bertie could be its editor, he has a deft and gentle way of pointing out errors. |
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Tina wrote:
Then there's the Mx medical advice column, physics advice -- I'm waiting for a unified field theory, or maybe a proposed standard of care for depression. I had a thought for what would be the longest thread ever in this newsgroup -- "The collected corrections of Mx statements". Bertie could be its editor, he has a deft and gentle way of pointing out errors. I love Bertie's personal rendition of Occam's Razor to Anthony's long extended posts where he "explains" everything in intimate and minute detail. "Nope"! -- Dudley Henriques |
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