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A bit about my pilot background. A🧵: - I started dreaming about flying when I was 2yo. (Maybe before but I made this number up as I can't remember, but when I was a kid for sure). - I drew my first plane around 5yo. And all drawings had a plane in it after that. Drawing of mom, of course, look she is in a plane, you can see her eye through the window. A flower? Here's one with a plane flying over... - I went as a passenger on front seat in a DR200 at 6yo - I built my first model plane out of balsa wood with my teacher when I was 10yo. - I built one all by myself at 12 with a small 1.5cc gas engine. I still have it but it requires some repairs. Glue is cracking. - I drew my first plane blueprint at about the same age. - I wanted to be a pilot but poor seight made teachers tell me I could not. It's completely incorrect. Many fly with glasses. - then I discovered computer simulation and flew everything that looked like a plane. They were looking more like a pixel at the time but imagination does the rest.
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Don't lie to us, you don't "fly". You just fall with style. 😉
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You don't realize how true this is! A sailplane has no energy input other than potential energy, aka altitude. It transforms it into speed, which generates lift on the wings. So either you have altitude and you can gain speed, or you have speed and you can convert it to altitude. But as most systems, you have energy leaks. Here because of the friction with air, the draft. So as a marble in a bowl, you can oscillate between gaining speed and gaining altitude but both are resorbed by friction eventually until you just stop at ground level. Hopefully it's called a landing, but in some case it's not. So you always fall. The only way to counter that is to find a place where the medium you are in goes up faster than your fall speed. A sailplane usually has a minimal fall speed of -0.7m/s. So as soon as you find air that goes up, the opposite direction, at least at this speed, you can maintain your altitude. But you are still falling relatively to the air, just not to the ground.
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