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- From: wd@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Diestelkamp)
- Subject: Re: Boomerangs
- In-Reply-To: brndlfly@athena.mit.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:08:57 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:22:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.170857.15462@athena.mit.edu> brndlfly@athena.mit.edu (Matthew T Velazquez) writes:
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- [ ... ]
- >
- > Friction has very little to do with lift. The only purpose friction serves is
- > to make an engineer ruin a perfectly good airplane by putting an engine on it.
- > :o)#
-
- Well, yes, exept that it is proportional to the lift generated :-)
- (simplifying a little by assuming a constant angle-of-attack and
- airfoil).
- Of course this does not imply that friction actually *generates*
- lift.
- Why not restart the "why does a wing fly" thread :-?
- --
- Wolfgang Diestelkamp
- wd@cs.tu-berlin.de
- wolfgang@first.gmd.de
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