Re: Airplanes

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

was the plane perhaps banking (to produce the difference in lift)?



At  8:46 AM -0500  on  5/6/02,  Clarence Bennett   wrote
> Yesterday midday, as I was approaching DFW in the rear of a Boing Super 80,
> I saw a vapor trail starting between the outer end of the flap and
> the aeleron.
>
> It then occurred to me to make sense, as with the flap down that should
> make a stronger vortex even than the wing tip.
>
> But there was no trace of a trail on the port side, so I wondered what the
> difference might be.
>
> I don't suppose there is any chirality of water condensation?
>
> Clarence P. Bennett
> bennett@oakland.edu
> Oakland University Physics
> 111 Hannah Hall
> Rochester, MI   48309
>  248 370 3418

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