An interesting old article

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I was searching for some web pages about "turbulence" and found the following. Note the article date.

The last paragraph, last sentence is amusing.

Granted in 1981 we funneled a lot of formations, but really...

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF4/454.html

[upndownshop 0]

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I was searching for some web pages about "turbulence" and found the following. Note the article date.

The last paragraph, last sentence is amusing.

Granted in 1981 we funneled a lot of formations, but really...

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF4/454.html

That wasn't even published in the "old" days of skydiving.

Wonder how they would have explained the first batton passes in the ?60's?

Well at least we didn't drown going through the clouds.

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This behavior seemingly defies the logic that says an object should orient itself to slip through the air with the least resistance.

Definitely not written by anyone with any education in aerodynamics! That was half funny, half painful to read.

Dave

[Floats18 0]

I should take that to my Fluid Dynamics professor tomorrow. Wonder what he'd make of it

ME 309 RULES!!!

Expecially the part when Prof. Werely says, "Since the averages on the exams were both less than 68%, most of you will fail this class."

--- and give them wings so they may fly free forever

DiverDriver in Training

[JohnRich 4]

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The last paragraph, last sentence is amusing.

For those who don't want to take the time to follow the link:

Yet another consequence of turbulence is that snowflakes and other bodies tend to catch up with each other. A snowflake caught in the turbulent wake of another tends to move faster and so can collide with the flake ahead and combine with it. This is the same effect that allows a motorcyclist to draft in behind a big truck and get a free, if somewhat dangerous, ride and why geese fly a V-formation; all except the head goose have easier flying. It's also why fish swim in schools, each fish senses the wake of the others ahead and swims accordingly. It probably is the same reason why a group of skydivers are sometimes able to move together to join hands and fall together as a group.