"Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Swimmers getting helped by new surfaces
> At 11:06 AM 27/03/2008, you wrote:
>>On 27/3/08 1:27 AM, "Michael Derry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
There is also the work being done by Dr Sinha in USA:
http://www.sinhatech.com/Index.asp
John G.
John Roake wrote:
> On 27/3/08 1:27 AM, "Michael Derry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John
> Roake: His reply hereunder:
>
> THIS FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL
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>
> SHARK SKIN RESE
At 10:27 PM 26/03/2008, you wrote:
>In the news today there is much mention of swimmers using hi-tech suits
>rather than swimming in brief costumes to improve their times.
>
>Does anyone on this list know much about this subject and is there any
>relevance from what these people have learned that c
At 11:06 AM 27/03/2008, you wrote:
>On 27/3/08 1:27 AM, "Michael Derry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Roake: His reply hereunder:
>
>THIS FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL
>
>
>SHARK SKIN RESEARCH COULD REDUCE SAILPLANE DRAG BY 30 PERCENT It
>may seem obvious that the surface
On 27/3/08 1:27 AM, "Michael Derry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Roake:
His reply hereunder:
THIS FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL
SHARK SKIN RESEARCH COULD REDUCE SAILPLANE DRAG BY 30 PERCENT It may seem
obvious that the surface of an airplane should be as smooth as possibl
On 27/03/2008, at 12:01 AM, D S Baker wrote:
WOAH! Ease up turbo! Then it'll fall apart!
It's going to do that eventually anyway, so what'll actually happen is
that
it'll just fall apart _faster_.
Calculating the available glide distance becomes a kind of optimization
problem :-)
He'd ha
On 27/3/08 1:27 AM, "Michael Derry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Roake:
His reply hereunder:
THIS FROM THE JANUARY ISSUE OF GLIDING INTERNATIONAL
SHARK SKIN RESEARCH COULD REDUCE SAILPLANE DRAG BY 30 PERCENT It may seem
obvious that the surface of an airplane should be as smooth as possib
Michael
Derry
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 10:57 PM
To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Swimmers getting helped by new surfaces
In the news today there is much mention of swimmers using hi-tech suits
rather than swimming in brief costumes to improve their times.
Does a
WOAH! Ease up turbo! Then it'll fall apart!
He'd have to refill them with some sort of Cement rivet that's flush with
the body... It'll still improve the glide ratio! :)
Dion
On 26/03/2008, Ashley Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mike i don't know a whole lot about this subject but... Taking
Mike i don't know a whole lot about this subject but... Taking all the
rivets out of your Blanik my improve the glide rate ;-)
Ash
Michael Derry wrote:
> In the news today there is much mention of swimmers using hi-tech suits
> rather than swimming in brief costumes to improve their times.
>
>
In the news today there is much mention of swimmers using hi-tech suits
rather than swimming in brief costumes to improve their times.
Does anyone on this list know much about this subject and is there any
relevance from what these people have learned that can help us to
improve the performance of
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