Re: [RCSE] DS discussion

I have been trying to work through the concepts and simple physics of their explinations to gain a grasp of how DS works. Well, try as I may I can not make the theories work. Perhaps you can help me out. This sketch shows how the airspeed changes during one DS orbit:

[RCSE] DS discussion

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Re: [RCSE] DS discussion

So, based on the the text and pdf, it appears that the 2-step theory wins, with a kick occuring at both step 1 and step 4. Mark Drela wrote: I have been trying to work through the concepts and simple physics of their explinations to gain a grasp of how DS works. Well, try as I may I can