Airplane Pilot's As Physicists

Barry Schiff, in "The Proficient Pilot", "An AOPA Book", writes on
page 2:

"There is, for example, this amusing fable: "Air flowing above the
wing has a greater distance to travel (because of camber) than air
flowing beneath the wing. Therefore, air above the wing must travel
faster so as to arrive at the wing's trailing edge at the same time as
air flowing underneath. This is pure nonsense."

Like I said. Upper camber is a conspiracy by the aluminum manufacturers to
sell more metal... Bournoulli was a shill.


-c

On Oct 16, 9:53 am, "Gatt" wrote:
Barry Schiff, in "The Proficient Pilot", "An AOPA Book", writes on
page 2:

"There is, for example, this amusing fable: "Air flowing above the
wing has a greater distance to travel (because of camber) than air
flowing beneath the wing. Therefore, air above the wing must travel
faster so as to arrive at the wing's trailing edge at the same time as
air flowing underneath. This is pure nonsense."

Like I said. Upper camber is a conspiracy by the aluminum manufacturers to
sell more metal... Bournoulli was a shill.

You wrote repeatedly that lack of attention to detail (mostly due to
my spelling errors) indicated lack of understangind, was not becoming
of a critical thinker, etc...yet you keep making spelling errors
youself.

I never disputed Bernoulli's Principle, not once. I said that there
was a lot of hand-waving going on when pilots uttered greater/lesser/
camber/Bernoulli in the same sentence.

Bernoulli's principle is correct.

That the camber influences lift is correct.

But how the camber influences lift has nothing to do with greater
distances traveled, IMO.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

Le Chaud Lapin wrote in
oups.com:

On Oct 16, 9:53 am, "Gatt" wrote:
Barry Schiff, in "The Proficient Pilot", "An AOPA Book", writes on
page 2:

"There is, for example, this amusing fable: "Air flowing above the
wing has a greater distance to travel (because of camber) than air
flowing beneath the wing. Therefore, air above the wing must travel
faster so as to arrive at the wing's trailing edge at the same time
as air flowing underneath. This is pure nonsense."

Like I said. Upper camber is a conspiracy by the aluminum
manufacturers to sell more metal... Bournoulli was a shill.

You wrote repeatedly that lack of attention to detail (mostly due to
my spelling errors) indicated lack of understangind, was not becoming
of a critical thinker, etc...yet you keep making spelling errors
youself.

I never disputed Bernoulli's Principle, not once. I said that there
was a lot of hand-waving going on when pilots uttered greater/lesser/
camber/Bernoulli in the same sentence.

Bernoulli's principle is correct.

That the camber influences lift is correct.

But how the camber influences lift has nothing to do with greater
distances traveled, IMO.



Guess what, Your opinion is worthless.

you don;t fly and you never will, so bernoulli wil never be your slave..




M
Bertie