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Did you Know
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:37 pm
by Bennie Vorster
Hi Guys I have decided to post some Did you Know toppics every now and then that might be interesting to some or maybe some useless info for others. Any one is welcome to please join me with some enlighting posts.........So here goes.......
Did you know.............
A wing can stall at any speed.
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:19 pm
by erik
Did you know - Bennie is doing his PPL exams.
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:35 pm
by windswept
Did you know.....
Bernoulli Sucks!!
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:44 am
by cornell
windswept wrote:Did you know.....
Bernoulli Sucks!!
It's a hoax I tell you
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:41 pm
by Gaz
sucks what?
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:11 pm
by Jimbo
Beernoulli wrt to wings (as opposed to pipes) never made sense to me, becasue it kind of means that the air over the top has to have some prior knowledge of how much it has to speed up to keep pace with the air over the bottom, but wth, who cares as long as it works.
Anyway,
Did you know.....
The word
hangar comes from the French but probably not a guy called Hangar who stored his blimps in one as is sometimes thought. More likely to be from the Latin word
angarium which was a shed where horses got shod, in turn from the word
ungulus for hoof. Amazing the cr@p you can find on the 'net
Edit... did I really say
Beernoulli... must have fluids on the mind.
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:19 pm
by Stephan van Tonder
Yes Bennie - hence the reaosn why AOA devices are actually more correct than airspeed indicators for stall warning.
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:45 pm
by Conrad
Did you know...
what __ twain __ stands for in computer terms?
Toolkit Without An Informative Name
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:04 pm
by Tailspin
Conrad wrote:Did you know...
what __ twain __ stands for in computer terms?
Toolkit Without An Informative Name
TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT AN INTELLIGENT NAME.
The drivers used for scanners to interface with the computer
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:27 pm
by Grumpy
Did you know..................
Duct Tape and Duck Tape are both correct for the same product.
Generally duct tape used for sealing ducting.........easy.
Duck tape, used in the war to seal ammo boxes from rain and damp thus causing the water to run off like? Yip
Water off a ducks back.
Re: Did you Know
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:35 pm
by Jimbo
I think (open to correction though, he admitted modestly) there's also a Duck Tape brand name of duct tape.
Edit.. yep
http://duckproducts.com/ (GOG! Good Old Google to the rescue)