Flight In Ground Effect: You're Doing It Wrong Department

"Thunder" (Thunder) 01/28/2014 at 17:23 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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CAR_IS_MI > Thunder 01/28/2014 at 17:29

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I tried this in GTA V once...

It ended poorly.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Thunder 01/28/2014 at 17:30

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Pictured: not actually a definition of "hydroplane". Surprisingly.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Thunder 01/28/2014 at 17:50

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Ground effect is a wonderful thing... especially when you find yourself inverted and its the only thing keeping you off the ground.

Thunder > Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight 01/28/2014 at 20:49

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Chuck Yeager spoke in his autobiography of exploring the phenomenon of flight in ground effect in an F-100 Super Sabre. He got over the desert, low and fast, and just kept going lower. He said at around ten feet (I think), it just wouldn't go any lower. Ground Effect simply kept it aloft, regardless of elevator input.

Crazy...

Simplify, then add beer > Thunder 01/29/2014 at 02:11

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It wouldn't go any lower because his giant titanium balls were dragging on the sand...