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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Simple.

Fly above it, shoot down, and then pull up.


58 posted on 02/06/2023 3:03:34 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

At 100 kt you cover 1,000 feet in less than 6.0 seconds. As Otto Lilienthal (aviation pioneer who died in a glider crash) observed, their are no rafters in the air, nothing to push against. Your ability to turn is limited. That contraption is big.


61 posted on 02/07/2023 3:20:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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