From: SpaceshipEarth_at_mail.com
Date: 05/03/01
From: SpaceshipEarth_at_mail.com Message-ID: <3AF24DDC.65933B4C@mail.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 01:36:11 -0500 Subject: A new explanation of how an airplane creates lift
PLANE WRONG
"The standard explanation of how we fly is mostly myth - it's just
wrong." Why don't planes fall out of the sky? If you believe the
textbooks, it's because air travels faster over the top, curved surface
of a wing and creates lift. This is the Bernoulli principle and it has
long been the cornerstone of the theory of flight. So, how are
aeroplanes able to fly upside down? According to Fermilab physicist
David Anderson it's because the Bernoulli principle is just plain wrong.
We talk to the man who says that if you want to understand how we fly,
forget fancy fluid dynamics and concentrate on Newton's three laws of
motion.
http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/opinion.jsp?id=ns22895