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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:26 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Gents,
I like Mac most of the time, but here I believe he’s all wet.
First, he bases his premise on a false assumption; that ground speed affects air speed. Wrong. Ground speed has zero effect on airspeed. It’s just the opposite. Airspeed is the operative mechanism and ground speed just follows.
Quote: | From then on he wades into the age old down wind turn and I don’t even want to go there.
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Blue skies & tailwinds,
Bob Borger
Europa XS Tri, Rotax 914, Airmaster C/S Prop (50 hrs).
Little Toot Sport Biplane, Lycoming Thunderbolt AEIO-320 EXP
3705 Lynchburg Dr.
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Cel: 817-992-1117
rlborger(at)mac.com
On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:26 PM, user9253 <fransew(at)gmail.com> wrote:
Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:13 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Oh No! The dreaded downwind turn! Here we go....
On 2/7/2014 5:26 PM, user9253 wrote:
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:15 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Not that I know much about aerodynamics, but it sounds like he's talking about real stuff but using the wrong terminology. For example, you can change your momentum but not your inertia (unless you're dumping luggage overboard!)
If you substitute 'momentum' for inertia and 'inertial frame' for ground speed, I think what he says makes a lot more sense.
--Daniel
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:39 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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On 2/7/2014 4:26 PM, user9253 wrote:
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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I've seen lots of comments about that article that say basically the
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same thing you're saying, but I think that (because of his poor
phrasing), his point is being missed. I don't think that he really meant
that the ground is affecting airspeed. I think that he meant that in a
turn, the relative wind is shifting, which affects lift. In a normal
turn at normal speed, we never notice it because the change is so
gradual. But in a turn at very low airspeed (as in, turn to final), the
turn rate can be tighter due to low airspeed & there's more chance of
real airspeed being affected by the change in relative wind. Now, tying
inertia to gravity was just dumb, & makes the whole article vulnerable
to critical analysis.
What's not explicitly said is that if we're maneuvering close to the
ground, we're much more likely to use the ground as a reference for our
speed, which can cause us to land too fast or too slow, depending on
wind direction.
FWIW,
Charlie
(Not a fan of his writing appearing in an EAA mag)
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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I think he's tried to simplify something that is actually quite complex,
and got all mixed up in the process.
I find it difficult to completely disagree with him, but its not how I
would have gone about describing what happens.
Peter
On 07/02/2014 22:26, user9253 wrote:
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Reminds me of an article that was in the Oct. 2013 (page 12) Sport Aviation. Doesn't anyone review these articles?
Quote: | Raymond Julian
Kettle River, MN.
"And you know that I could have me a million more friends,
and all I'd have to lose is my point of view." - John Prine | On 02/07/2014 04:26 PM, user9253 wrote:
Quote: | Quote: | --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: "user9253" <fransew(at)gmail.com> (fransew(at)gmail.com)
Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:32 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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I agree Bob. As several others have pointed out, there are some big misunderstandings in his article. I am very surprised Sport Aviation "printed" this article.
I'd like to point out that Mac doesn't understand what "wind velocity" is. He says:
"In the classic wind shear encounter a strong wind changes velocity
or direction, or both, suddenly robbing the airplane of lift."
People who know what they're talking about know that velocity is a vector and includes magnitude (speed) and direction; therefore, his terminology is incorrect. When I detect these kind of errors, I have a tendency to think the author doesn't know what he's talking about. I see this scenario happening at work meetings frequently.
Henador Titzoff
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On Fri, 2/7/14, Robert Borger <rlborger(at)mac.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics
To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com
Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 2:55 PM
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Gents,
I like Mac most of the time, but here I believe he’s all
wet.
First, he bases his premise on a false assumption; that
ground speed affects air speed. Wrong. Ground
speed has zero effect on airspeed. It’s just the
opposite. Airspeed is the operative mechanism and
ground speed just follows.
>From then on he wades into the age old down wind turn
and I don’t even want to go there.Â
Blue skies & tailwinds,
Bob Borger
Europa XS Tri, Rotax 914, Airmaster C/S Prop (50 hrs).
Little Toot Sport Biplane, Lycoming Thunderbolt AEIO-320
EXP
3705 Lynchburg Dr.
Corinth, TXÂ 76208-5331
Cel: 817-992-1117
rlborger(at)mac.com
On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:26 PM, user9253 <fransew(at)gmail.com>
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will
lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because
part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be
used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming
inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts
on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some
pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List.Â
It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:22 am Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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At 05:44 PM 2/7/2014, you wrote:
Quote: | Reminds me of an article that was in the Oct. 2013 (page 12) Sport Aviation. Doesn't anyone review these articles?
Quote: | Raymond Julian
Kettle River, MN.
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Yup, we discussed that article here on the List
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Subject: Re: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics
At 04:55 PM 2/7/2014, you wrote:
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Gents,
I like Mac most of the time, but here I believe he’s all wet. |
Agreed. The physics of the 'dreaded downwind turn' are firmly
rooted in the anecdotal but sad observation that so many
accidents have occurred while trying to accomplish this
maneuver.
But if one studies the motion of a winged body during
a maneuver intended to reverse direction quickly and
return to the airport, acceleration of the airplane's
mass in a new direction is a smooth, continuous activity
promoted by the horizontal component of lift that MUST
be present in the coordinated turn.
We explored this line of reasoning last October during
which I posted this response . . .
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:15 pm Post subject: The dreaded downwind turn . . .
At 10:48 AM 10/7/2013, I wrote:
Quote:
When he started talking about the the wind accelerating to aircraft during the turn, he lost me.
As soon as he says "a lighter aircraft will
accelerate faster than a heavier aircraft"
and bases the statement on an analysis of
"square feet of sail" . . . he blew it.
I sat next to a guy for several years who wrote
heavy duty software for autopilots that flew UAV's of all
stripe from 80Kts to 500 Kts. He tapped simple-ideas
to from my high school physics to describe how
the airplane flies.
I've been meaning to do an article on the
physics of this maneuver and have some drawings
done . . . somewhere on the hard drive. I'll
see if I can dig them up and perhaps finish
the article.
But while you read the words of folks wrestling with
the 'dreaded downwind turn' go to the POH data for
your airplane and get one number. Target IAS for
best glide angle. This is the speed at which your
distance over the ground versus altitude lost is
at a maximum.
When folks are talking about the physics of flight,
they're talking about airplanes that are being
'flown' . . . in other being controlled to conditions
that maximize performance. This generally calls for
a speed well above best rate of climb combined with
a 270 degree turn at 45 degrees of bank into the crosswind to
get pointed back toward the runway.
When the engine quits with a runway close behind
you, its easy for those performance numbers get obscured
by other things running around in your head. It takes
a Bob Hoover like attitude to first get the nose down
to achieve best glide angle whether you are turning
or not; stack in a 45-degree banked turn on top of
really adds pucker factor.
At speeds below best glide, lift/drag ratios can go
into the toilet in a hurry. On of my most cherished
flight instructors was checking me out in a Beech
Flying Club A36 one day. After three or four
by-the-book touch and goes he said "let me show you
something."
"Stay at pattern altitude until you're on final."
"Uh, okay . . ."
As I turned final I reached for the throttle . . .
"Nope, not yet . . ."
The runway disappeared under the nose and I reached
for the throttle . . .
"Nope, not yet . . . "
A few seconds later he said, "Okay. Close the throttle
and give me 75 MPH."
I set it up and was amazed. Sink rate went to something
around 1200 ft/min. A few seconds later I acquired a better
short-final view of the runway and he said, "Power up to
arrest your descent, push the nose down and give me 90
MPH over the numbers."
After that, the landing proceeded normally.
The point being that maneuvering around at speeds
below best glide is where the airplane sinks fast
even if you're not turning . . . faster still if
you turn. Best glide is well above those speeds
at which perturbations in IAS due to gusting can
begin to eat into your energy margins for maneuvering.
Best rate and particularly best angle of climb
speeds have the nose really high with a commensurate
boat-load of drag. Whether the airplane remains
controllable just before contact with the ground isn't
a matter of winds, it's a matter of altitude and
the pilot's willingness/ability to EXCHANGE energy
stored on that altitude for controllable airspeeds.
Airspeeds that will bring you to the ground with energy
to flare and keep the wheels attached to the airplane.
The alternative is a 1000+ feet per minute descent rate,
no energy to flare and a probability of having to eat
your wheels.
There are two magic numbers that drive your decision
to turn around best glide speed and ground clearance
KNOWN to be sufficient to the airplane's demands as
determined by experiment and practice.
Barry Schiff tells us how in this article.
http://tinyurl.com/mo8wux4
Note that Barry mentions nothing about controllability
hazards for having made a downwind turn. That's because
the target approach speed for greatest probability of
success is well above that where perturbations in wind
velocity make any difference at all. See:
http://tinyurl.com/kzr95lk
http://tinyurl.com/m29yg5y
http://tinyurl.com/k9y3z4y
http://tinyurl.com/mmgmojr
It's all about lift/drag ratios and energy budgets.
If your choice of pitch angle is poor (IAS) or your
stored energy (altitude) is lacking then it's a bit
specious to drag 'hazards of downwind turns' into the
discussion . . . things were probably not going to
go well anyhow. You become a passenger in your airplane
doing experiments with the controls.
Bottom line is that EAA, of ALL organizations, should
have folks with talents on a par with the honorable
Mr. Schiff to vet their articles.
http://tinyurl.com/mtn32qf
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The stall-spin outcome for attempting this
maneuver comes from the natural unwillingness to
push the nose down immediately upon loss of power.
If you don't do that, the airplane slows, the
controls go sloppy, sinkrate jumps up and the
pilot succumbs to a powerful desire to raise
the nose some more. A marginal energy budget (altitude
and present velocity) is quickly squandered
and has nothing to do with wind.
As Barry mentions in the first article cited
above, "The difference between success and failure is not
only having sufficient altitude, but knowing how and when
the turnaround maneuver can be performed with relative safety."
I would add to that thought with the notion that
few people will read Barry's article and become
magically prepared to deal with the situation
in real life. Practice, practice and a bit
more practice goes a long way toward proficiency.
In my early days of flying I spent hours in a
Beech Skipper doing landings at the various
and many grass strips around ICT during periods
of adverse winds and turbulence. This was based
on a comment by my instructor who said, "Someday
you're going to find yourself over the airport
down to less than ideal reserves for fuel and
the task will be to deal with the winds you're
given. Through those hours of getting to know
my limits and those of my airplane, I lost my
irrational fear of less than graceful landings
and became more attentive to the physics of the
task. The "dreaded downwind turn" is no different
than "15 knots across the runway gusting to 25 with
the thermals pounding the wings." If you don't
set out to learn it then you'll be poorly equipped
when you need it.
Bob . . .
Bob . . . [quote][b]
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:31 am Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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This article purports to be a discussion of the physics, but ends up being a hand-waving exercise full of hokum.
It suffers from a problem with changing frames of reference... the air, then the ground and tries to rationalize the effects. The best way to analyze the aircraft dynamics is with a single point of reference, the ground. When this is done, one can see *three* types of total energy at play.
Two of the three energy types are obvious: kinetic energy due to the speed of the aircraft (over ground), potential energy due to the height of the aircraft in the gravitational field of the earth. What’s the third one, you ask.....? Well, the moving mass of air (wind) appears in the calculations sort of like a horizontal gravitational field. Flying into the wind increases ‘wind potential’ energy with respect to the ground, flying downwind then converts this ‘wind potential’ into kinetic energy, just like descending converts gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy.
Vern
From: rayj (raymondj(at)frontiernet.net)
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 3:44 PM
To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com (aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com)
Subject: Re: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics
Reminds me of an article that was in the Oct. 2013 (page 12) Sport Aviation. Doesn't anyone review these articles?
Quote: | Raymond Julian
Kettle River, MN.
"And you know that I could have me a million more friends,
and all I'd have to lose is my point of view." - John Prine | On 02/07/2014 04:26 PM, user9253 wrote:
Quote: | Quote: | --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: "user9253" mailto:fransew(at)gmail.com (fransew(at)gmail.com)
Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:55 am Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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Maybe the chief editor could review the articles. Oh, wait...
[quote] Reminds me of an article that was in the Oct. 2013 (page 12) Sport Aviation. Doesn't anyone review these articles?
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:28 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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At 09:55 AM 2/8/2014, you wrote:
Quote: | Maybe the chief editor could review the articles. Oh, wait...
Quote: | Reminds me of an article that was in the Oct. 2013 (page 12) Sport Aviation. Doesn't anyone review these articles?
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It seems that Mr. McCellan has skipped across
the wave-tops on an incident we discussed here
on the List as I recall . . .
http://tinyurl.com/o3j2bxh
I've maintained that the incident and several
others like it
http://tinyurl.com/ky7szec
were absolutely not electrical system failures
but instead failures on the part of owner/operator
to assemble and maintain the system components
within the limits of their performance.
A car that goes over the edge of a cliff after
blowout of a bald tire did not suffer that
end due to 'tire failure' . . . yes the
tire demonstrated it's inability to meet
design goals after being neglected/abused
by its owner . . . but it was simply the
inevitable icing on a cake that was baked
hours, days even perhaps months earlier.
Bob . . . [quote][b]
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:35 pm Post subject: Mac's theory defies the laws a physics |
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I honestly had to read Mac's blog a couple of times to overcome my disbelief inertia. With this blog and that idiotic "sail area" article, I have to seriously think about my relationship to EAA. That they claim to be an organization concerned about aviation safety and then allow such drivel to be published is just unbelievable. As I said in my comment to Mac's blog, it's embarrassing, simply embarrassing.
Rick Girard
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:26 PM, user9253 <fransew(at)gmail.com (fransew(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
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Mac McClellan's theory seems to defy the laws a physics: http://goo.gl/VaZ4MS
I think that he is wrong. Of course an airplane will lose airspeed in a level turn unless power is added, because part of the lift that was used to maintain altitude must be used to "lift" the airplane around a turn, overcoming inertia. I think that the only force the earth exerts on an airplane is gravity, no matter its relative motion.
This is not electrically related. But there are some pretty smart people who lurk on the AeroElectric List. It will be interesting to read their opinions.
Joe
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