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Old 24th April 2008, 07:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
Bertie the Bunyip
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Default Lancair crash at SnF

Stefan <stefan@mus._INVALID_.ch> wrote in news:9f9a3$481106d6$54487369
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> WingFlaps schrieb:
>
>> (the stall is now damn close -better
>> hope there's no significant wind)

> ...
>> Now we add in the energy losses from having to
>> accelerate with the wind and to glide speed.

>
> Arrrgh! Not the old "turn into downwind" legend again! Better work out
> your understanding of physics before publicly reasoning about turns.
>
>> There is nearly always somewhere flat to put the plane

>
> The operative word in this sentence is "nearly".


so you've done this, have you?

Bertie
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