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Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence

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Subject Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence
Date 2015-11-15 04:22 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence
>> http://www.wired.com/2015/11/the-physics-of-why-airplane-wings-oscillate-in-turbulence/
> 
>> There are two questions I think of looking at this oscillation.
>> First, how large is the amplitude of oscillation? Second, why do the
>> wings oscillate? Here are the answers.
 
Airplane wings do not oscillate; if they did they would fall off.

Airplane wings have very heavily damped ringing in response to an
impulse; that is not oscillation.

 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 21:45 -0600
  Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 04:22 +0000
    Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 05:40 +0000
      Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 04:02 -0500
        Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 19:48 +0000
        Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-15 14:16 -0600
      Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 08:07 -0600
        Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 19:59 +0000
          Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-15 14:17 -0600
      Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-11-15 14:15 -0600
      Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 20:30 +0000
        Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 21:12 +0000
          Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 21:36 +0000
  Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 20:49 +0000

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