Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site laidbak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!laidbak!jeq From: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Columbia's Tiled Damaged by Rain Message-ID: <169@laidbak.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 21:28:50 EDT Article-I.D.: laidbak.169 Posted: Wed Aug 14 21:28:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:21:59 EDT References: <4010@alice.UUCP> <199@mot.UUCP> <521@calmasd.UUCP> <47@darwin.UUCP> <1400@cbosgd.UUCP> Reply-To: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) Organization: LAI Chicago Lines: 28 In article <1400@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes: >Regular airliners manage to fly at several hundred miles per hour >and fly through clouds and rainstorms without much trouble. They >seem to have metal skins designed to not hit the air/water head on, >but rather deflect it over them. Aerodynamics, right? From a description of Voyager, the aircraft designed and built for the sole purpose of flying around the world, non-stop, non-refueled: "(The airfoils) both had to somehow avoid the deleterious effects of bugs, rain, and even ice for 10 days and through 25,000 miles of the earth's far from pristine atmosphere. ... What John (Roncz) came up with was an airfoil shape that controls *where* the inevitable bugs will hit the wing surface..." (from "John Roncz, the Arisotle of Airfoils", _Sport Aviation_, July, 1985) This effect, though not always designed in, is valid nonetheless. (Currently, the around the world flight attempt is expected to occur sometime in the autumn of 1986.) Jonathan E. Quist Lachman Associates, Inc. ihnp4!laidbak!jeq ``I deny this is a disclaimer.''