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- From: Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong)
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- Subject: Re: Tracking
- Message-ID: <19930126100940.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:09:00 GMT
- References: <MAINE.93Jan25195403@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov> <25JAN199313112698@vx.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan26.011603.22455@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
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- In Article <MAINE.93Jan25195403@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov> "maine@altair.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine)" says:
- >
- > That's still misleading. I've seen several people in the past make
- > the same mistake. Presumably none of them are pilots (which I am) nor
- > parachutists (which I'm not, but I presume they must have the right
- > intuition even more strongly). The lateral area has essentially
- > nothing to do with either descent rate or descent angle. Anything
- > falling on a non-gliding parachute will move laterally with "exactly"
- > (to as close as matters, excepting mainly transient gusts) the
- > wind velocity, making lateral area irrelevant.
- >
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- Kind of shoots hole in the 'X-form' parachutes don't drift as far a regular
- parachutes theory. Doesn't it?
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