home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rockets
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!ntaib
- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Tracking
- Message-ID: <C1JHAE.3Cp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- Organization: Indiana University
- References: <25JAN199313112698@vx.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan26.011603.22455@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:56:38 GMT
- Lines: 41
-
- In article <1993Jan26.011603.22455@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >soc1070 writes:
- >:
- >: As for decent rates, I think a basic problem would be that two
- >: different rockets, each exactly the same weight and with the
- >: same size 'chutes, would fall at different rates, because the one
- >: with the larger exposed area (i.e. fins, tube, etc) would be carried
- >: further down wind. A one pound rocket and a one pound sphere with
- >: identical chutes will not likely fall in the same place, so its
- >: difficult to say. In your case, what you computed was the *closest*
- >: possible distance.
-
- >This is a little misleading. They will both fall at the same rate.
- >They will not fall at the same descent angle - the one with the greater
- >lateral area of resistance will drift further.
-
- Actually, given enough time to accelerate to wind velocity, both
- will drift sideways at the same speed, which is zero airspeed and
- whatever the wind velocity is for groundspeed.
-
- Now of course behavior will be different if wind shear or different
- wind velocities at different altitudes exist.
-
- This one's been beaten to death in model airplane circles - whether
- a model will "feel" wind when in free flight, i.e. when there isn't
- an operator on the ground telling it what to do by his frame of
- reference.
-
- An interesting thought experiment would be to fly an R/C pattern ship
- off the deck of an aircraft carrier sailing downwind at exact wind
- velocity. The operator doesn't sense and wind, and the airplane doesn't
- seem to experience a wind either.
-
-
-
-
- --
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
- Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
- Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
-