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Re: Reducing drag in airplanes

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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...

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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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