Rick A few years ago, a friend asked me if I could convert his boat to electric drive. The boat was an Angelman conversion of a WWII lifeboat,...
Adverse thrust made me wake up.... ...to the problem, and I quickly realized that this approach was a dead end, that's why I didn't bother trying...
My bike turbine idling... This is a MPG of my turbine. That red tow bar was bent in a pretty steep arc when running, showing the conflicting...
Not totally pipe sections... Rick My foils on my turbine were shaped very carefully to be pretty good foils except for the root area where...
I had the same thing happen... Rick ...when my free running bicycle/car did the same thing, running ahead with a leap then almost stopping...
Adverse thrust rears it's ugly head again... Rick When you turn your turbine into a reaching condition you will notice there is a heeling...
Rick...I doubt that I can get you to understand that .... ...the wing is supported by the momentum transfered from the air to the wing, by...
Rick...That makes no sense... The car analogy is ridiculous because it is not being supported by it's forward motion through another medium. The...
Rick...I think I see where you are confused... ...and I think if you can answer my previous question of where the missing 19 pound force actually...
Rick... You are letting the formulas get the better of you because you apparently cannot see that level flight is a limiting condition where...
There is no difference... ...between a water-foil and an air-foil in the way they develop lift. The collisions between water (/air) molecules on...
Rick...Just to elaborate... ...on the theory of lift, where you seem to have placed too much faith in formulas, and not enough in the fundamental...
Water...? I'm not sure why you ask that question, because water has no ability to compress since it is virtually a solid. Air is compressible if...
I'm surprised that you don't see that... ...you have defined work as a force times distance, and because you see no distance (what you define as...
I beg to disagree... That force of lift is work accomplished against gravity.
Right before our eyes... ....How about a 20:1 L/D airfoil, where a 1 (one) pound pull (offsetting drag) produces a 20 pound force at right angles...
I wish... ...I had a simple way to demonstrate this, but it seems just as much work to build a full-sized model as a scale model. It may even be...
My Aeolus Attempt Greetings everyone... Rick: You don't need to convince me of the generator-battery-controller-motor drive configuration, as...
It will be up to folks like us.... I really see little reason for all the animosity, we all are dabblers in this particular area. The folks with...
Sparks a flyin'... Too bad you guys can't knock back a couple of beers over the web, otherwise I think you would be seeing eye-to-eye...
