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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: astronomers, flesh and blood gliders, out-of-context quotes
Message-ID: <1683@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 02:42:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1683
Posted: Sun Sep 22 02:42:10 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 23:40:40 EDT
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Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Organization: University of Woolamaloo
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Summary: 

>               2.   Any  creature  which  could  only  glide  would have no
>                    home.  Its life would be a  continual migration  in the
>                    direction of  the prevailing  winds.  How then would it
>                    care for its young, back at the nest?

You seem to believe that gliders can only glide downwind.  Wrong.

The small airplanes I'm taking lessons on can glide when the engine
fails.  The emergency procedure for dealing with engine failure (when
they happen at a high enough altitude), involves picking a field to
land on, gliding downwind past the field, and doing two 90 degree
turns.  The second one, toward the field, is a turn directly into the
wind.  I've actually practiced these, so I know they're possible.
-- 
David Canzi

ACCUSE, v. t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a
justification of ourselves for having wronged him.  (Ambrose Bierce)


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