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  • A photograph of Boeing Bobby discovered on the WWW

    It's inappropriate to put personal stuff like this up- but his face is obscured, BUT his aircraft is not.- hopefully the mods won't mind.

    Is this suitable for uploading to the photo database?

    PS- Do not over think this, the intent is light humour.

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    Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

  • #2
    Originally posted by 3WE View Post
    It's inappropriate to put personal stuff like this up- but his face is obscured, BUT his aircraft is not.- hopefully the mods won't mind.

    Is this suitable for uploading to the photo database?

    PS- Do not over think this, the intent is light humour.

    Click to see full size.
    [ATTACH=CONFIG]21966[/ATTACH]
    Yeah, I know, it is a joke.
    But back to Earth, some pilots could benefit from such kind of reading.
    (And no BB, I am not talking of you or any pilot in particular, remember I am a pilot too)

    --- Judge what is said by the merits of what is said, not by the credentials of who said it. ---
    --- Defend what you say with arguments, not by imposing your credentials ---

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    • #3
      Originally posted by 3WE View Post
      It's inappropriate to put personal stuff like this up- but his face is obscured, BUT his aircraft is not.- hopefully the mods won't mind.

      Is this suitable for uploading to the photo database?

      PS- Do not over think this, the intent is light humour.

      Click to see full size.
      [ATTACH=CONFIG]21966[/ATTACH]
      Don't quit your day job just yet there 3. I don't think SNL is looking for you.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by BoeingBobby View Post
        Don't quit your day job just yet there 3. I don't think SNL is looking for you.
        Indeed.

        Better chances of driving a 747.
        Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Gabriel View Post
          But back to Earth, some pilots could benefit from such kind of reading.
          Truly. How many pilots could accurately describe why a wing generates lift?
          I wonder if you could?
          I read a NASA lesson for 4th graders that decribes the Bernoulli Principle. It taught me that the low pressure on the upper wing surface is the result of both the upper and lower airstream needing to leave the trailing edge of the wing at the same time.
          That has been debunked in wind tunnels however. The upper flow departs the wing far sooner than the lower.
          Then I was taught that the pressure differential is caused by the introduction of the airfoil shape compressing the airflow above the wing, causing it to speed up and the pressure to drop.
          But that has also been challenged. The reasons for that compression have not been convincingly explained.
          So, does anybody actually know what makes an airplane fly...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Evan View Post
            How many pilots could accurately describe why a wing generates lift?
            Well I think in many people's opinion (myself included), to be a good pilot you do not need to know why a wing generates lift. To be a good pilot, you need to know when a wing generates lift... and when it does not.
            Be alert! America needs more lerts.

            Eric Law

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Evan View Post
              Truly. How many pilots could accurately describe why a wing generates lift?
              I wonder if you could?
              I read a NASA lesson for 4th graders that decribes the Bernoulli Principle. It taught me that the low pressure on the upper wing surface is the result of both the upper and lower airstream needing to leave the end of the wing at the same time.
              Which is incorrect and can be proven incorrect using fluid-dynamic formulas (not even numeric simulation), fluid-dynamic simulation or wind tunnel testing.
              What did I say about experts not always being right?

              On the other hand, I did read a NASA article debunking the myths about lift generation, and this was one of them.

              Then I was taught that the pressure differential is caused by the introduction of the airfoil shape compressing the airflow above the wing, causing it to speed up and the pressure to drop.
              But that has also been challenged. The reasons for that compression have not been convincingly explained.
              What? Compression above the wing? You obviously need less pressure above than below, compression is increasing pressure, by definition. Where did you see such a thing?

              So, does anybody actually know what makes an airplane fly...
              Yes.

              If you want to look at it macroscopically, the wing accelerates the air down, by the 2nd Newton's law of motion that requires a downward force than the wing effects on the air, and by the 3rd Newton's law of motion that requires that the air makes an equal but opposite force on the wing, that we then call lift.

              If you want to look at it an the level of differentials of volume (that is very very small but still assuming that the fluid is a continuum), then you have the complete Naviere-Stokes equations, which is F=ma applied to a differential volume of fluid, and many simplified versions of Naviere-Stokes where you choose different assumptions (constant viscosity, incomprehensibility, laminar flow, adiabatic compression and expansion, etc...) and get simplified forms of the equation. Bernoulli is one of them.

              Next step is at a molecular level, and then elementary particles. But I will not go into that because I have no idea what equations are used there.

              But yes, we know the physics of the fluids quite well, to the point where we can use the formulas, introduce imaginary objects (boundary conditions) and initial conditions and predict with a surprising accuracy how the fluid will move and what forces will the objects in it be subject to due to the fluid.

              Does a pilot need to know how to do that? No. Does a pilot needs to know the CONCEPTS, the interactions, the cause-effect mechanisms and their consequences? No, you can operate a plane in the same manner that most people operate a car or an iPhone: with zero idea of how it works. But I sustain that pilots that know better are better pilots.

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              --- Defend what you say with arguments, not by imposing your credentials ---

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              • #8
                Isn't this how planes work?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Evan View Post
                  How many pilots could accurately describe why a wing generates lift?
                  It accelerates a mass of air downward in a rather direct relationship to the AoA.

                  I read that somewhere.

                  Oh yeah, the Wright Brothers did a bunch of work and found that a little curvature and the hump shape increase things a little over s simple flat wing AND reduce parasite drag...but that's icing on the cake.
                  Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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                  • #10
                    What? Compression above the wing? You obviously need less pressure above than below, compression is increasing pressure, by definition. Where did you see such a thing?
                    I guess the word is distortion, constriction, caused by the introduction of a shape into the airstream resulting in faster fluid movement across the top and thus lower pressure.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Evan View Post
                      I guess the word is distortion, constriction, caused by the introduction of a shape into the airstream resulting in faster fluid movement across the top and thus lower pressure.
                      You have noted that there's a really big hump on the underside of the wing too? I did not learn that from reading.
                      Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by 3WE View Post
                        Oh yeah, the Wright Brothers did a bunch of empirical work and found that a little curvature and the hump shape increase things a little over s simple flat wing AND reduce parasite drag...but didn't have a frickin' idea why that was.
                        Fixed.

                        Honestly, I'm torn between Gabriel's up quark explanation and vastr magic one. However, I think the book every pilot should be reading is How Airplanes Don't Fly.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Evan View Post
                          Fixed.

                          Honestly, I'm torn between Gabriel's up quark explanation and vastr magic one. However, I think the book every pilot should be reading is How Airplanes Don't Fly.
                          Modifications noted...

                          Why having something of a hump on top works...why those BIG ASS leading edge slats that shove air UPWARDS and over the wing work...Shoving air UP sure as hell doesn't make lift.

                          I have read that 60% of lift is "suction" from the top of the wing...40% because the bottom side shoves air downward.

                          Magic, indeed- but from reading Wolfgang Langewiesche, it really doesn't matter.
                          Les règles de l'aviation de base découragent de longues périodes de dur tirer vers le haut.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by 3WE View Post
                            It accelerates a mass of air downward in a rather direct relationship to the AoA.
                            Correct but incomplete.

                            F = m*a

                            m:
                            The mass of air accelerated is the volume times the density.
                            The volume is proportional to how much air is flowing around the wing, hence speed.

                            hence m = k1 * V * r (V= speed, r = density)

                            a:
                            The intensity of the acceleration is proportional to the angle that the air is deflected which is proportional to the AoA.
                            But is also proportional to the speed: If you deflect air down from 0 degrees to say 10 degrees down, the vertical speed at 10 degrees will be 17% of the horizontal speed.

                            Hence, a = k2 * V * AoA

                            Finally, L = F = m * a = k1 * V * r * k2 * V * AoA = k * r * v^2 * AoA

                            Lift = k * r *V^2 * AoA

                            [/splitting-hairs geek]

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by 3WE View Post
                              I have read that 60% of lift is "suction" from the top of the wing...40% because the bottom side shoves air downward.
                              So a little bit of Bernoulli, a little bit of Newton.

                              L = B + N * V * AoA* ^ M (M= Magic)?

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