motorgliders as towplanes

A physicist acquantance who wrote a book on Newton and aerodynamics said
that the mathematics was taken over from electrical theory because the
equations balanced, but that they don't explain what is cause and what is
effect. That's the feeling I get when you start talking about something
called theta as if it were proof.

Seems to me we have a new theology going here -- something akin to
pre-milleniumism versus post-milleniumism.


At 13:29 20 March 2009, wrote:
You guys have proven 2 fundamental truths.

1) In any engineering discussion. If you don't define terms at the
start, you just chase yourself around in a circle.

2) Pilots don't need to know much about aerodyanmics to fly well.

Oh yeah,

3) Flight instructors explain these things more to make a point than
to be accurate :-)


Todd Smith
3S