Re: misconceptions (physics of flight)

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

Again HTML. Also lines are very long. Are you aware
of this? I had to scroll, and scroll, and scroll ... Was it
only me? Perhaps something is not right with my
Netscape. Messages from other people are OK; no
HTML and no need to scroll. What follows was a
single line from my Netscape mailer.

Dear Colleagues,

As part of training as a Naval Aviator I took "flight engineering"
course at Pensacola 1981.   The recent discussion regarding
misconceptions of flight took me to my attic stacks of old texts.
Sure enough,  right under the chapter explaining the physics of
flight via the Bernoulli explanation was a diagram that showed
two Oxygen atoms being separated -- one to flow over the wing
and one to flow under the wing. The text explained that atmospheric
Oxygen was, of course, a diatomic molecule and that the leading edge
of the wing separated the atoms in the molecule.  To further this
lunacy,  the two oxygen atoms were depicted as being attached by
springs, apparently to explain that the attraction of the Oxygen
atoms for one another grew as they were separated.

"K. Lee Lerner" wrote:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> --Boundary_(ID_rtub9B5MRa2jFUpXnueJHw)
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> As part of training as a Naval Aviator I took "flight engineering" ...