So, how does a frisbee fly?

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote:


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So, how does a frisbee fly, anyway? Another of his favorites is just a
10" diameter weighted outer rim filled in with a slightly saggy "cloth
drumhead", which visibly bulges upward 1" or so at the center into a
fair imitation of an airfoil when you throw it. I've always figured the
heavy rim kept the thing spinning and thus semi-rigid, and the forward
motion of the airfoil shape gave the lift.

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agree with the metal mass providing fly wheel effect

There you have it. It's the fly wheel effect. Everyone knows that a
rapidly spinning massive disk is referred to as a fly wheel.
Obviously, our predecessors didn't give them that name just on a shim.
Obviously someone must have observed that they fly. Which is probably
why they make cars so heavy, so that their rather large fly wheels
won't lift them off of the ground.

Glad we got that one figured out.
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