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[Phys-L] Re: the plane truth



Bernard Cleyet wrote:

A spherical, He filled, balloon tethered will be
brought down, say the tether to 45 deg.?,

Or down even more than that.

by a stiff wind. How may one
design a balloon to be less affected by wind?

By making it aerodynamic. I can fly my kite at a very high angle,
not 90 degrees, but a whole lot more than 45 degrees. And that's
with no helium at all.

If you put helium in it, it's called a kitoon.
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