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Old February 9th 14, 04:47 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dave Springford
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Default THE AVIATORS Soaring Episode

I would guess that waveguru has never taken a first year Applied Mechanics Engineering course, otherwise he would understand things such as equilibrium, free-body diagrams, vectors and force components and the fact that lift acts perpendicular to the relative airflow and therefore by definition can not provide thrust.