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MythBusters airplane on a conveyor belt
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: WingFlaps wrote in news:ddef2011-7cca-4e5e-b5a8- : On Jan 31, 12:34 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote: On Jan 30, 1:36 pm, Peter Clark wrote: For those interested in such things, the MythBusters show titled "Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" is in TVGuide to air tonight at 9pm Eastern US on Discovery/Discovery HD. Yea, I had the TiVo searching for it for the last few weeks. I see that its set to record soon (I never actually pay attention to when a show is on anymore). I'm looking forward to it. To me the interesting part will not be the experiment but the premise. Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? -Robert I'd be interested in knowing whether they can detect the actual lift derived from the wheels spinning as the plane lifts off... Well, you could do it in a wind tunnel! There was a time in the 30's when a rotating cylinder was seen as the future of the wing. I think maybe even a few were built! I'm pretty sure I have an old Popular aviation with a few pics of a fairly unsucessful prototype.. But a little spinning wheel isn't going to give you much.. Bertie Actually you can still do it. Really? I thought there might have been a physics watershed back there in the late ffties! We could check this out with Ken, but I'm pretty sure it will work without him :-))) I used a spinning cylinder all the time in my discussions on aerodynamics. It makes a perfect example when getting into lift. A cylinder not rotating in a free stream airflow has no lift as the stagnation points are neutral. The airstream flows over the cylinder equally; no Bernoulli...no Newton. Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! You get it all in one simple demonstration. You get upwash and downwash. That's circulation. (Newton) You get increased local velocity over the top of the cylinder and decreased local velocity under it. That's Bernoulli! The whole shegang is Magnus effect. It's a wonderful way to get into wings, golf balls, curve balls...the whole magilla :-)) Excellent. What kind of contraption do you use to demonstrate? Bertie Just a tin can, a blackboard and chalk, some finger pointing and a good gift of gab :-)) OK You don't actually spin the can in front of a fan or anything then? I have located a very olp plan for a rubber powered cylindrical wing model if anyone want me to post it I will. Bertie The Naval Test Pilot School used to have a neat demonstration film set up with a smoke generator and a fan coupled with a cylinder that was both static and synamically capable that was shot in Schlieren format that did the trick nicely, but in a pinch, I always found the blackboard and chalk thing did just as well. The trick with audio visuals is that the emphasis is really on the instructor and how he/she uses the training aid rather than the training aid itself. It's amazing what you can get across to people with the right gift of gab :-)) I usually resort to drawing on the back of beer mats, myself. Bertie I've done that myself many times giving ground school at an old bar across the street from one of the airports I used to operate out of :-) Actually, a lot of good stuff gets done this way. Ed Heinemann from Douglas jotted down the initial design for the A4 Skyhawk on a table napkin. -- Dudley Henriques |
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Neil Gould wrote:
Recently, Dudley Henriques posted: Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article , Dudley wrote: Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! Would that be punka walla, or cha walla? (ITYM 'Voila' ) Andy (sorry, couldn't resist!) I'll bet the Australians use something even better than either of us :-)) What, "walla-be" (cross between wallaby and wannabe)? ;-) Neil Could be. You have to admit, the Aussies DO have a way with nifty words. :-)) -- Dudley Henriques |
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message news:0c2b0515-acb4-4050-844e- Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? Maybe if they fast-forward the videotape they'll generate even more lift. -c |
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"Neil Gould" wrote in news:Voloj.1587$xq2.1296
@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net: Recently, Dudley Henriques posted: Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article , Dudley wrote: Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! Would that be punka walla, or cha walla? (ITYM 'Voila' ) Andy (sorry, couldn't resist!) I'll bet the Australians use something even better than either of us :-)) What, "walla-be" (cross between wallaby and wannabe)? ;-) They're breeding! Bertie |
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MythBusters airplane on a conveyor belt
Dudley Henriques wrote in
: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: WingFlaps wrote in news:ddef2011-7cca-4e5e-b5a8- : On Jan 31, 12:34 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote: On Jan 30, 1:36 pm, Peter Clark wrote: For those interested in such things, the MythBusters show titled "Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" is in TVGuide to air tonight at 9pm Eastern US on Discovery/Discovery HD. Yea, I had the TiVo searching for it for the last few weeks. I see that its set to record soon (I never actually pay attention to when a show is on anymore). I'm looking forward to it. To me the interesting part will not be the experiment but the premise. Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? -Robert I'd be interested in knowing whether they can detect the actual lift derived from the wheels spinning as the plane lifts off... Well, you could do it in a wind tunnel! There was a time in the 30's when a rotating cylinder was seen as the future of the wing. I think maybe even a few were built! I'm pretty sure I have an old Popular aviation with a few pics of a fairly unsucessful prototype.. But a little spinning wheel isn't going to give you much.. Bertie Actually you can still do it. Really? I thought there might have been a physics watershed back there in the late ffties! We could check this out with Ken, but I'm pretty sure it will work without him :-))) I used a spinning cylinder all the time in my discussions on aerodynamics. It makes a perfect example when getting into lift. A cylinder not rotating in a free stream airflow has no lift as the stagnation points are neutral. The airstream flows over the cylinder equally; no Bernoulli...no Newton. Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! You get it all in one simple demonstration. You get upwash and downwash. That's circulation. (Newton) You get increased local velocity over the top of the cylinder and decreased local velocity under it. That's Bernoulli! The whole shegang is Magnus effect. It's a wonderful way to get into wings, golf balls, curve balls...the whole magilla :-)) Excellent. What kind of contraption do you use to demonstrate? Bertie Just a tin can, a blackboard and chalk, some finger pointing and a good gift of gab :-)) OK You don't actually spin the can in front of a fan or anything then? I have located a very olp plan for a rubber powered cylindrical wing model if anyone want me to post it I will. Bertie The Naval Test Pilot School used to have a neat demonstration film set up with a smoke generator and a fan coupled with a cylinder that was both static and synamically capable that was shot in Schlieren format that did the trick nicely, but in a pinch, I always found the blackboard and chalk thing did just as well. The trick with audio visuals is that the emphasis is really on the instructor and how he/she uses the training aid rather than the training aid itself. It's amazing what you can get across to people with the right gift of gab :-)) I usually resort to drawing on the back of beer mats, myself. Bertie I've done that myself many times giving ground school at an old bar across the street from one of the airports I used to operate out of :-) Actually, a lot of good stuff gets done this way. Ed Heinemann from Douglas jotted down the initial design for the A4 Skyhawk on a table napkin. He he. Yeah. A lot of our aircraft paperwork ends up with strange scribbles on the back too. Bertie |
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"gatt" wrote in
: "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message news:0c2b0515-acb4-4050-844e- Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? Maybe if they fast-forward the videotape they'll generate even more lift. That's how Anthony would do it! Bertie |
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: WingFlaps wrote in news:ddef2011-7cca-4e5e-b5a8- : On Jan 31, 12:34 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote: On Jan 30, 1:36 pm, Peter Clark wrote: For those interested in such things, the MythBusters show titled "Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" is in TVGuide to air tonight at 9pm Eastern US on Discovery/Discovery HD. Yea, I had the TiVo searching for it for the last few weeks. I see that its set to record soon (I never actually pay attention to when a show is on anymore). I'm looking forward to it. To me the interesting part will not be the experiment but the premise. Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? -Robert I'd be interested in knowing whether they can detect the actual lift derived from the wheels spinning as the plane lifts off... Well, you could do it in a wind tunnel! There was a time in the 30's when a rotating cylinder was seen as the future of the wing. I think maybe even a few were built! I'm pretty sure I have an old Popular aviation with a few pics of a fairly unsucessful prototype.. But a little spinning wheel isn't going to give you much.. Bertie Actually you can still do it. Really? I thought there might have been a physics watershed back there in the late ffties! We could check this out with Ken, but I'm pretty sure it will work without him :-))) I used a spinning cylinder all the time in my discussions on aerodynamics. It makes a perfect example when getting into lift. A cylinder not rotating in a free stream airflow has no lift as the stagnation points are neutral. The airstream flows over the cylinder equally; no Bernoulli...no Newton. Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! You get it all in one simple demonstration. You get upwash and downwash. That's circulation. (Newton) You get increased local velocity over the top of the cylinder and decreased local velocity under it. That's Bernoulli! The whole shegang is Magnus effect. It's a wonderful way to get into wings, golf balls, curve balls...the whole magilla :-)) Excellent. What kind of contraption do you use to demonstrate? Bertie Just a tin can, a blackboard and chalk, some finger pointing and a good gift of gab :-)) OK You don't actually spin the can in front of a fan or anything then? I have located a very olp plan for a rubber powered cylindrical wing model if anyone want me to post it I will. Bertie The Naval Test Pilot School used to have a neat demonstration film set up with a smoke generator and a fan coupled with a cylinder that was both static and synamically capable that was shot in Schlieren format that did the trick nicely, but in a pinch, I always found the blackboard and chalk thing did just as well. The trick with audio visuals is that the emphasis is really on the instructor and how he/she uses the training aid rather than the training aid itself. It's amazing what you can get across to people with the right gift of gab :-)) I usually resort to drawing on the back of beer mats, myself. Bertie I've done that myself many times giving ground school at an old bar across the street from one of the airports I used to operate out of :-) Actually, a lot of good stuff gets done this way. Ed Heinemann from Douglas jotted down the initial design for the A4 Skyhawk on a table napkin. He he. Yeah. A lot of our aircraft paperwork ends up with strange scribbles on the back too. Bertie ...and don't forget those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches you can stuff into a Jepp case :-)) -- Dudley Henriques |
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Dudley Henriques wrote in
: Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote in : Bertie the Bunyip wrote: WingFlaps wrote in news:ddef2011-7cca-4e5e-b5a8- : On Jan 31, 12:34 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote: On Jan 30, 1:36 pm, Peter Clark wrote: For those interested in such things, the MythBusters show titled "Airplane on a Conveyor Belt" is in TVGuide to air tonight at 9pm Eastern US on Discovery/Discovery HD. Yea, I had the TiVo searching for it for the last few weeks. I see that its set to record soon (I never actually pay attention to when a show is on anymore). I'm looking forward to it. To me the interesting part will not be the experiment but the premise. Do some believe that an airplane generates lift as a result of the speed of the wheels? -Robert I'd be interested in knowing whether they can detect the actual lift derived from the wheels spinning as the plane lifts off... Well, you could do it in a wind tunnel! There was a time in the 30's when a rotating cylinder was seen as the future of the wing. I think maybe even a few were built! I'm pretty sure I have an old Popular aviation with a few pics of a fairly unsucessful prototype.. But a little spinning wheel isn't going to give you much.. Bertie Actually you can still do it. Really? I thought there might have been a physics watershed back there in the late ffties! We could check this out with Ken, but I'm pretty sure it will work without him :-))) I used a spinning cylinder all the time in my discussions on aerodynamics. It makes a perfect example when getting into lift. A cylinder not rotating in a free stream airflow has no lift as the stagnation points are neutral. The airstream flows over the cylinder equally; no Bernoulli...no Newton. Now spin the cylinder clockwise to the airstream. Walla......instant lift! You get it all in one simple demonstration. You get upwash and downwash. That's circulation. (Newton) You get increased local velocity over the top of the cylinder and decreased local velocity under it. That's Bernoulli! The whole shegang is Magnus effect. It's a wonderful way to get into wings, golf balls, curve balls...the whole magilla :-)) Excellent. What kind of contraption do you use to demonstrate? Bertie Just a tin can, a blackboard and chalk, some finger pointing and a good gift of gab :-)) OK You don't actually spin the can in front of a fan or anything then? I have located a very olp plan for a rubber powered cylindrical wing model if anyone want me to post it I will. Bertie The Naval Test Pilot School used to have a neat demonstration film set up with a smoke generator and a fan coupled with a cylinder that was both static and synamically capable that was shot in Schlieren format that did the trick nicely, but in a pinch, I always found the blackboard and chalk thing did just as well. The trick with audio visuals is that the emphasis is really on the instructor and how he/she uses the training aid rather than the training aid itself. It's amazing what you can get across to people with the right gift of gab :-)) I usually resort to drawing on the back of beer mats, myself. Bertie I've done that myself many times giving ground school at an old bar across the street from one of the airports I used to operate out of :-) Actually, a lot of good stuff gets done this way. Ed Heinemann from Douglas jotted down the initial design for the A4 Skyhawk on a table napkin. He he. Yeah. A lot of our aircraft paperwork ends up with strange scribbles on the back too. Bertie ..and don't forget those peanut butter and jelly sandwiches you can stuff into a Jepp case :-)) Heh heh. Don't do that, but there's many the coffee stain on our papers. Bertie |
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WingFlaps wrote:
Cheers hangonaminnit. I don't hink I understand the issue. if the wing moves thru the air fast enough it will fly. I don't understand what the question is. do people believe the wheels are driving the airplane forward? i'm confused. I don't care about the tire's relationship with the surface they're on. I just wanna get the wing thru the air. Imagine, I put the airplane onna treadmill and run the treadmill belt CW so that the wheels are spinning CCW( as if the plane were rolling backwards). BUT I move the supporting frame of the treadmill thru the air forward at sufficient velocity to produce lift on the wing.... it flies. Maybe I'm missing what people are concerned about. what's really freaky is the ultralite guy was surprised he was flyin when he reached takeoff velocity thru the air. -- Message posted via AviationKB.com http://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200801/1 |
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