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Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence
Date 2015-11-15 20:30 +0000
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Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 04:22:27 +0000, jimp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Airplane wings have very heavily damped ringing in response to an
>> impulse; that is not oscillation.
>>
> 
> I did not read the article, but any kind of turbulence should
> impart a repetitive series of impulses to a wing, and thus,
> although damped, the system becomes a DRIVEN OSCILLATOR.
 
Nope.

Yet again you have no clue.

If an airplane's wings could oscilate, that would mean they have a
resonant frequency, and if they did and if the turbulance was anywhere
near the resonant frequency, the wings would flap wildly until they
fell apart.


-- 
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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