I've recently begun to grasp how little I understand about aerodynamics,
e.g. Normally, an airfoil bends from about 25% from the LE; why are
control surfaces so small, then? Or: The Bernoulli explanation of lift
doesn't do it for me; isn't the job of an airfoil to create downward
thrust
Monkey King wrote:
The Bernoulli explanation of lift
doesn't do it for me; isn't the job of an airfoil to create downward
thrust without stalling?
Take a loogk at
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bernnew.html
The interactive windtunnel applets are particulalrly neat :)
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Andrew
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