Why airplanes fly

george wrote in
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On Feb 4, 6:53 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they
move forward through the air.

.Why do aeroplanes fly ?
Because they can


There ya go!


Bertie

Why airplanes fly:

What they teach: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_theory.jpg

The reality: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_reality.jpg


- J.O.-

John Ousterhout wrote in
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Why airplanes fly:

What they teach: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_theory.jpg

The reality: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_reality.jpg

Heh heh.

Bertie

John Ousterhout wrote:
Why airplanes fly:

What they teach: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_theory.jpg

The reality: http://www.ousterhout.net/gallery/4_forces_reality.jpg

Well, that's good for the US registration. But what about the rest of them?

John,

Hey, you forgot the lift fairy in there.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Feb 3, 2:40 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
george wrote :

On Feb 4, 6:53 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they
move forward through the air.

.Why do aeroplanes fly ?
Because they can

There ya go!

Bertie

And here all this time I thought airplanes flew because the earth
sucks.*

* - ...it just sucks less when you're in an airplane!

FledgeIII wrote in
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On Feb 3, 2:40 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
george wrote

om:

On Feb 4, 6:53 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they
move forward through the air.

.Why do aeroplanes fly ?
Because they can

There ya go!

Bertie

And here all this time I thought airplanes flew because the earth
sucks.*


Nah that's why we don't fly off into space.


Bertie

On Feb 5, 5:52 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
FledgeIII wrote :


And here all this time I thought airplanes flew because the earth
sucks.*

Nah that's why we don't fly off into space.

So long as the score card reads gravity nil you're a winner :-)

On Feb 3, 2:16*pm, george wrote:
On Feb 4, 6:53 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

Fixed-wing aircraft fly because their wings generate lift as they move forward
through the air.

.Why do aeroplanes fly ?
Because they can

Dude was doing just fine having a conversation with himself. He asked
the question, and he answered it. We all intrued into his
conversation. We should have left him alone to talk to himself.

Wil

In a previous article, William Hung said:
Dude was doing just fine having a conversation with himself. He asked
the question, and he answered it. We all intrued into his
conversation. We should have left him alone to talk to himself.

I suspect he'd bet somebody that he couldn't post a single thing here
without a long thread starting with dozens of people jumping on him to
tell him how he's wrong.


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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned
in school. -- A. Einstein