Re: Windmilling up wind.


"Ian Johnston" <ian.groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:37:25 UTC, Andy Champ <no.way@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

: Ian Johnston wrote:
: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:52:24 UTC, Andy Champ <no.way@xxxxxxxxxx>
: > wrote:
: >
: > : Offwind the keel's resistance to lateral forces results in "Induced
: > : Drag". This is normally discussed in terms of aircraft wings, as in
: > : this article:
: > :
: > : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_drag
: >
: > Mind you, that's an incredibly Mickey Mouse explanation of induced
: > drag. What you'd expect from Wikipedia, really.

: Being Wikipedia, you are free to update it.

Yes, and have some acne ridden 18 year old Star Trek fan in his
darkened, suspiciously-crunchy sock strewn bedroom "correct" it
because, hey, authority is wrong and just because I (partly) teach
fluid dynamics for a living doesn't give my views any weight. No thank
you.

I did once, just for fun, correct a gross, ridiculous,
first-year-udergraduate-would-spot-this error in the description of a
thermodynamic cycle. My edit was reversed within half an hour.

Life is just too short to try to stop Wikifiddlers from hurting
themselves.

Ian

You mean everything on the internet isn't True??!
This could be the end of civilisation as we know it.


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