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Rebellious minds of all countries, unite in the righteous struggle for the beautiful wingsuits of the future, against flying mattresses!!! If not YOU, who will make the future?!
SuperYuri will save the day and liberate us from horrible wingsuits with his own design... the Clown1 (shoes not included)
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Actually, I think I remember one man in an early M1 did 7:1 once..Matt, do you remember the details of that, can you refresh our memory?
is it that flight with flight-data-never-to-be-posted?
SuperYuri will save the day and liberate us from horrible wingsuits with his own design... the Clown1 (shoes not included)
Are you kidding the glide ratio is all in the shoes, made of cuban fiber I heard.
sethgray 0
This actually gave me a thought:
Would it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern--like sharkskin--wouldn't the resulting difference in airspeed (between the air going over the back skin and the bellyskin) give us better lift? shit, if you did the top/back with the front 1/3 zp and rest f111 you'd even get the whole "suck the air over the top" thing going on...
am I just rambling, or does this make sense to anybody else?
Would it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern--like sharkskin--wouldn't the resulting difference in airspeed (between the air going over the back skin and the bellyskin) give us better lift? shit, if you did the top/back with the front 1/3 zp and rest f111 you'd even get the whole "suck the air over the top" thing going on...
am I just rambling, or does this make sense to anybody else?
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mccordia 74
QuoteWould it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern--like sharkskin--
Why...you planning to go swimming with your wingsuit?
JC
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I've never seen shark's skin. Is it like sand paper or more like gaffers tape?
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mccordia 74
QuoteWould it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern
Wouldnt this also be counter-productive? Unless you mean it the other way around. What you are saying here would decrease the lift..not increase...
You need air passing slower over the top of the wing then it does underneath, creating a low pressure 'sucking' the wing up.
Increasing drag on the bottom and having a smoother surface on top to speed the air up seems to do the excact opposite...
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sethgray 0
QuoteI've never seen shark's skin. Is it like sand paper or more like gaffers tape?
Yuri, its not NEARLY as cool as gaffers tape (but sadly, not much is). Shark skin is kindof like that new (1999 new) 3m mouse pads that are a huge grid of microscopic pyramids, except the sharkskin's microscopic texture tips are pointed all one way to give directional bias. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.astrographics.com/GalleryPrints/Display/GP2127.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.astrographics.com/GalleryPrintsIndex/GP2127.html&h=360&w=360&sz=17&tbnid=vM_BDWLNmYeHiM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dshark%2Bskin%26um%3D1&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1
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sethgray 0
QuoteQuoteWould it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern
Wouldnt this also be counter-productive? Unless you mean it the other way around. What you are saying here would decrease the lift..not increase...
You need air passing slower over the top of the wing then it does underneath, creating a low pressure 'sucking' the wing up.
Increasing drag on the bottom and having a smoother surface on top to speed the air up seems to do the excact opposite...
See, you knew what this stoner meant
. I was just thinking that currently all the suits are made to be slick all the way around for increased speed, and thus control and lift. I wonder if we could get performance increases by inducing drag where it may help us, instead of keeping away from it like the plagueBASE #958
kallend 2,027
QuoteQuoteWould it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern
Wouldnt this also be counter-productive? Unless you mean it the other way around. What you are saying here would decrease the lift..not increase...
You need air passing slower over the top of the wing then it does underneath, creating a low pressure 'sucking' the wing up.
Ummmm - NO!
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
kallend 2,027
QuoteThis actually gave me a thought:
Would it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern--like sharkskin--wouldn't the resulting difference in airspeed (between the air going over the back skin and the bellyskin) give us better lift? shit, if you did the top/back with the front 1/3 zp and rest f111 you'd even get the whole "suck the air over the top" thing going on...
am I just rambling, or does this make sense to anybody else?
Rambling.
Take a look at a high performance glider and see if it has deliberate drag inducing patterns on the underside of its wings.
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The111 1
QuoteYou need air passing slower over the top of the wing then it does underneath, creating a low pressure 'sucking' the wing up.
Increasing drag on the bottom and having a smoother surface on top to speed the air up seems to do the excact opposite...
It's irrelevant anyway, but you have it backwards here Jarno. High speed air has a lower static pressure.
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QuoteThis actually gave me a thought:
Would it make sense that if the top/back surface of the wingsuit was as slick as posible, but the bottom surface had more of a directed pattern--like sharkskin--wouldn't the resulting difference in airspeed (between the air going over the back skin and the bellyskin) give us better lift?
It is a theory but if we more like lifting bodies ( a theory of its own) then the backside could be fabricated out of shag carpet without ill effect as it would be in a huge burble.
RJmoney 0
rough stuff isn't to slow air down. its to keep the boundary layer turbulent, which keeps it attached to the wing longer, which gives you more lift. thats why the balls have dimples. so you'd want rough stuff on the top of the wing.
i don't think we're there yet on wing suits, i dunno but im guessing our boundary layers are pretty damn turbulent as things are.
i don't think we're there yet on wing suits, i dunno but im guessing our boundary layers are pretty damn turbulent as things are.
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Costyn 1
Quoterough stuff isn't to slow air down. its to keep the boundary layer turbulent, which keeps it attached to the wing longer, which gives you more lift. thats why the balls have dimples. so you'd want rough stuff on the top of the wing.
i don't think we're there yet on wing suits, i dunno but im guessing our boundary layers are pretty damn turbulent as things are.
Bird-Man had the deflectors on the S3, S3S and the S6, exactly for this reason, to keep the turbulent flow longer on the wing. I guess on the Blade it was no longer deemed as useful and taken off.
Unfortunately the flow over the top of the wing seems to separate almost immediately, as you can see in this revealing video making the whole idea of an airfoil shape on your wingsuit laughable. However much we would like to believe otherwise, what we "fly" are nothing more really than air deflectors, which is why Tony's 1 layer suit can actually "fly" pretty well with 2 layer wingsuits.
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RJmoney 0
true i totally forgot about those thingies in regards to this discussion/advanced aero stuff.
well im ready to try vacuum boundary layer suction on my wingsuit, the tiny fans are gonna suck from the top of my wing then also inflate into the wing itself. all powered by 50 9 volt batteries placed around the wingsuit, orrr 1 big battery, feeding the vacuums through christmas tree lights, which will in turn make me look super sick and lit up as my boundary layers are far more attached than the rest of yous's
well im ready to try vacuum boundary layer suction on my wingsuit, the tiny fans are gonna suck from the top of my wing then also inflate into the wing itself. all powered by 50 9 volt batteries placed around the wingsuit, orrr 1 big battery, feeding the vacuums through christmas tree lights, which will in turn make me look super sick and lit up as my boundary layers are far more attached than the rest of yous's
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aarthus 0
QuoteYou need air passing slower over the top of the wing then it does underneath, creating a low pressure 'sucking' the wing up.
Increasing drag on the bottom and having a smoother surface on top to speed the air up seems to do the excact opposite...
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Good one !! yeah low speed sucks
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mccordia 74
QuoteUmmmm - NO!
Hey...Im allowed to have my 4 AM fuckups too
JC
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QuoteUnfortunately the flow over the top of the wing seems to separate almost immediately, as you can see in this revealing video making the whole idea of an airfoil shape on your wingsuit laughable. However much we would like to believe otherwise, what we "fly" are nothing more really than air deflectors, which is why Tony's 1 layer suit can actually "fly" pretty well with 2 layer wingsuits.
Maybe it apply for you...
Maybe you fly just because you miss the earth every time...
That statement is so fulish that this is laughable too...
mccordia 74
QuoteMaybe it apply for you...
Maybe you fly just because you miss the earth every time...
That statement is so fulish that this is laughable too...
Your spelling is 'fulish'
But forgiven since you're German..and Germans rock the house in their lederhosen!
The footage we've seen so far, visualising the airflow over the wing suggests the airflow seperates before even hitting further then 1/3d up the wing. There's also some single-layer wingsuits out there get more then decent glideratios and flight times..
As 'filled with poopoo' you may find that statement..just looking at the videolink he posted along with it should at least be some food for thought..
It may be laughable to you, but English speech with a German accent is waaayy funnier...
JC
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Ok, ok, let's stay on topic, boys! The topic is not "Bigger is better!" or "Size does matter!"
If it were, I'd have posted a picture of the biggest airplane or biggest nipple in the world (we all know who's the happy owner of it, his name has 5 letters: J, a, r, n, o).
Maxim's airplane with 20 wings is an apotheosis of thoughtless "more is more" approach to development. "The Wright Brothers built a plane with 2 wings... well, I'll build a plane with 20 wings!!! Woooohoooo!!! I wins, u sucks!"
The point is, we reached the end of the road. We maxed out the size of fabric, but we haven't applied any of the basic aerodynamics ideas to it. Wingsuiting made as much progress in the last 80 years as from Wright Brothers to Maxim.
Rebellious minds of all countries, unite in the righteous struggle for the beautiful wingsuits of the future, against flying mattresses!!! If not YOU, who will make the future?!
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