Re: Airfoil lift, new article

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Michael N. Monce wrote:

>         I had such a discussion about 6 months ago in the flight simulator
> group I belong to (I quit actual flying many years ago due to the high
> costs).  The heated discussion was with a CFI pilot who now has been hired
> by an airline.  Nothing I could do would ever convince him that the
> Bernoulli equation can be derived from Newton's laws.  Even when
> confronted with the idea of a symmetrical airfoil and inverted flight he
> stuck with his notion of pressure differences as the only route to explain
> lift.

Heh!  There's one argument which defeats all others: sticking fingers in
the ear canal, shouting "You're Wrong!", and stalking away.  Ooops, there
are others too: suddenly and mysteriously changing the subject whenever it
looks like your opponent is right.

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