Greg, please tell me what/where you fly so I can stay far far away :)
I suspect you mistyped what you were trying to say but I have to strongly
disagree with what you say below. Low pressure *never* goes towards higher
pressure. I don't have as much experience as you but I have been a
skydiver, and therefore a canopy pilot, for 5 years. A parachute is simply
an inflatable wing, complete with flaps. Wings on planes and parachutes
work to create lift using Bernoulli's principal. Concerning flight,
Bernoulli's Principle has to do with the shape of an airplane's wing. The
bottom is flat, while the top is curved. Air travels across the top and
bottom in the same time, so air travels slower on the bottom (creating more
pressure) and faster on top (creating less pressure). This supposedly
keeps the plane in the air.
If you're still not convinced, you can read up on Bernoulli. Here's one
link http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/davea/aviation/bernoulliPrinciple.html
Stephen I. Early
Portfolio Conversions
MBNA America
302.457.4788
800.441.7048 x74788
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-----Original Message-----
From: AAFS172@aol.com [mailto:AAFS172@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:33 PM
To: bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Bricklin cooling
I've been a pilot for ten years and can say this. A wing is curved on top
and flat on bottom so as the wing moves through the air, the air has to move
faster to move across the top than the bottom. With an increase in air
speed across the top there is also an increase in air pressure compared to a
lower air pressure on bottom.
Lower air pressure will always go towards an area of higher pressure.
So looking at the shape of our cars from the side I would have to go with
the
theory of low pressure air inside the engine compartment being sucked out by
high pressure air traveling over the hood and windshield. Whether or not we
are traveling at low or high speeds.
Greg
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