Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #39771
From: Dominic V Crain <domcrain@tpg.com.au>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: RE: [LML] Wing positive pressure
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:59:12 -0500
To: <lml>

That's right, Ladies and germs, “lift on a hollow wing is due to the air inside pushing up on the top skin and pushing down on the bottom skin”, but the top skin wins, hopefully!

 

Er – Ar – forgive me – but! If you have a completely evacuated tube with evacuated wings – I reckon it will still fly. Nothin’ to do with what’s inside the wing. Or the tube. In fact, I’ve flown with quite a few evacuated heads sitting next to me. Some of my old captains probably thought the same about me. Still got off the ground. This was a test –right?

Did I pass?

Back to Woody.

 

Cheers

 

Dom

 

VH-CZJ

 

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