flight and ballistics aside, this is a nice looking model FIRST. the rest is fun also
scissors rocks paper,,,den On Nov 1, 11:57 am, [email protected] wrote: > I'm no aeronautics engineer, but there is a difference between flight and > ballistics. > > a dart, a softball, a cannonball will "fly" but that is not is a > generalization not the principles of flight. I think the litmus test would > be if he gave the model a little nothing toss off a roof, and as it started > to fall, the craft would recover and level is trajectory based on lift > applied to its wings (Bernoulli effect.) If you make one of those 3rd grade > delta dart paper planes and throw it straight down it will happily level off > and sail away. That IMO is true flight. > > --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Jim Krauzlis <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Jim Krauzlis <[email protected]> > Subject: [Papermodels II 40670] Re: Ojimak has a flying B-2 > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 11:29 AM > > I don’t know, I thought it showed a bit of lift as she > went off into the distance…only wish the launch was into a more open area > so we could really see how she would do before bouncing off of the > building. J > > > > Cheers! > > Jim > > > > From: > [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of [email protected] > > Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:13 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Papermodels II 40669] Re: Ojimak has a flying B-2 > > > > model looks great, but I question the "flying" > video. looks more like falling with style to me. > > --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Bob Dennison <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > From: Bob Dennison <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Papermodels II 40666] Re: Ojimak has a flying B-2 > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sunday, November 1, 2009, 10:35 AM > > > > > Thanks for the heads up William. > > > > > Bob D... > > --- On Sat, 10/31/09, william perry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From: william perry <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Papermodels II 40664] Ojimak has a flying B-2 > > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 9:11 PM > > http://www.geocities.jp/ojimak_01/ > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
