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Re: Reducing drag in airplanes

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On 6/18/2018 11:40 AM, benj wrote:
> On 6/18/2018 11:47 AM, Sergio wrote:
>> On 6/18/2018 3:06 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
>>> On Monday, 18 June 2018 16:00:51 UTC+10, benj  wrote:
>>>> On 6/17/2018 10:57 PM, Sergio wrote:
>>>>> On 6/17/2018 8:18 PM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
>>>>>>   From another post by me in the thread "Shooting to the Moon"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ***
>>>>>> That will depend upon how much the projectile is streamlined,
>>>>>> designed, oriented, etc. I don't think anyone has fired anything
>>>>>> at Mach160. To reduce drag the tip of the projectile could emit
>>>>>> some air or gas at Mach 160 and that will simply blow the air in
>>>>>> front of it away, and thus drag will be reduced. The projectile
>>>>>> will have an air cushion around it, travelling at its own speed.
>>>>>> Let us not forget, that with this speed the projectile will be out
>>>>>> of the atmosphere in less than half a second.
>>>>>> ***
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It occurred to me, that the same idea of reducing drap can be
>>>>>> applied to aeroplanes. At the drag areas (the nose, cockpit,
>>>>>> sides) they could blow air from the plane in front to clear the
>>>>>> still air away, thus putting the whole plane in an effective
>>>>>> cushion, that will reduce the drag considerably. Less drag means
>>>>>> either more speed or less powerful engines drinking less oil.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Arindam Banerjee
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the English tried a light coating of PIG FAT in the late 1800's,
>>>>> left a
>>>>> smell of bacon.
>>>>>
>>>> Sometimes old ideas are useful in a later age! A "bacon plane" could be
>>>> quite the terrifying weapon in Muslim or Jewish countries.
>>>
>>> If it makes the capitalist swine invest, it will be money well spent.
>>>
>>
>> there is an excess of pig fat from many capitalist swine in the USA, and
>> they put it into sausages, cookies, hot dogs, french fries, fried
>> chicken, biskets, McDonalds chicken Nuggets for your kids, actually Lard
>> is very tasty for some as is just spoon it out, and the new health food;
>>
>> Lard is the new health food;
>> https://www.foodandwine.com/articles/lard-the-new-health-food
>>
>> of course it is forbidden by some religions, and health departments
>> because the piggus is a filthy animal.
>>
> Of course pigs ARE filthy animals! Here's some science for all you food
> eaters our there. Long long long ago, humans (like Chinese and probably
> some others) made the scientific discovery that when Humans consume food
> they do NOT completely extract all the nutrition out of it. In fact one
> can have a pig living in a latrine eating human excrement getting along
> just fine! The humans get a pig for free and the pig is as happy as a
> pig in...well you know! Win-win! Well, almost. What about the safety of
> eating a latrine pig? Well it turns out that the pig's digestive system
> and biology acts as a pretty good filter to the nasty diseases and
> toxins expected in a human shit-hole and thus eating latrine pigs has
> been a common practice among the very poor for centuries.
> 
> Personally I'm not quite so sure I'd trust biology that much. A pig fed
> on rotten cabbage and tomatoes is more my style, but hey the mother of
> necessity and all...

the older generation (world war 2 and before) ate everything, you can
still get Scrapple though.

they do that bio filtering waste with Talapia now.

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Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-17 18:18 -0700
  Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-17 19:12 -0700
  Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-17 21:57 -0500
    Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-17 22:19 -0700
    Re: Reducing drag in airplanes benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-18 02:00 -0400
      Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 01:06 -0700
        Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-18 10:47 -0500
          Re: Reducing drag in airplanes john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 09:08 -0700
            Re: Reducing drag in airplanes benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-18 12:49 -0400
              Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-18 12:32 -0500
                Re: Reducing drag in airplanes benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-18 19:41 -0400
                Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-06-19 15:18 -0700
              Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 17:59 +0000
          Re: Reducing drag in airplanes benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-06-18 12:40 -0400
            Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-06-18 12:36 -0500
  Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 09:32 -0700
    Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-18 17:48 -0700
      Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 07:03 -0700
        Re: Reducing drag in airplanes Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-06-20 16:24 -0700

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