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What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

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Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:26 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

Originally Posted by benflagg
This is also a reason that 2 ships traveling at speed cannot run to close together. Bernoulli's principal dictates that they will be sucked in to eachother, and collide. I have seen it in persone, and I can verify that this is very true lol.
hmmm, would that have any of the same principles as this question:

"Why does a ball stay suspended in a vertical airstream even if disturbed?"

(yes, that's the other thing i have to answer in my paper)

brb, i'm gonna go make another thing of coffee and get wired
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:30 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

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hmmm, would that have any of the same principles as this question:

"Why does a ball stay suspended in a vertical airstream even if disturbed?"

(yes, that's the other thing i have to answer in my paper)

brb, i'm gonna go make another thing of coffee and get wired

Im not sure, I think that may be another principal though.
Old Nov 14, 2006 | 07:53 PM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

Originally Posted by benflagg
This is also a reason that 2 ships traveling at speed cannot run to close together. Bernoulli's principal dictates that they will be sucked in to eachother, and collide. I have seen it in persone, and I can verify that this is very true lol.
yeah, underway replenishments suck. very precise operation.
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 04:43 AM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

you've been writing a lot of papers lately
Old Nov 15, 2006 | 06:01 AM
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Default Re: What are some good sites that explain the concept of Airfoils?

well, not really.. just waiting till the last minute for my 2 different papers i have to do, but i finished this one at 330am haha, the other one is due nov 28th

but thanks for the help you guys, i'm pretty happy with the paper i wrote, it's just under 6 pages long
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