ac, you are lost when you can't figure out how to google a new-to-you term. go
to your nearest university with an aero eng program and ask any frosh enrolled
in such a program.

From: "AC"
Date: 8/29/2004 2:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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"Jan-Olov Newborg" wrote in message
. com...
"AC" wrote in message
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The answer to your question, is yes. Sails are made from dacron for ease
of
handling & shortening, and cost. Many examples of rigid-wing vessels
exist,
I suggest doing a search on that. They often use fairings at the leading
edge, or movable trailing edges to fine tune the foil.

An aircraft can fly inverted, because its angle-of-attack changes to
suit
the correspondingly lower efficiency of the foil in this position. As
others
have noted, acrobatic craft often employ nearly symmetrical foils for
this
reason. A normally profiled foil will fly inverted, but inefficiently,
and
at a much lower VMG due to the increased drag from the higher angle of
attack.

The profile of the wing only handles the Drag, not Lift.

Angle of attack handles Lift (see the Cl/Alfa diagram)!



You didn't read the post properly. I'd suggest going back and doing so.

Nowhere did I say a wing's profile "handles" lift. What the #$@ is a Cl/Alfa
diagram? and where has anyone other than you referred to such?


Try some "Bernoulli experiments for kids",and you will reach a better
understanding.


Bernoulli experiments are all due to other physical effects like
boundary layer (asymmetric) separation, entrainment of air, Coanda
effect etc.

Since when is an experiment ever due to an effect? Maybe due to the effect
of higher funding by a benefactor... [I hope this is due to a language gap].

As a scientist, I usually like to credit my experiments to myself, rather
than some mis-quoted phenomenon that is dubiously applied to the situation.


The thought that " a change in air velocity will change the pressure"
is not real, only mathematic relations.


Jan-Olov Newborg