...and equally true if the fly hits a C5A, Boeing 747 or AirBus ;<)
WRB
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On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:46, Mike Willis wrote:
This reminds me of an old conundrum – did you realise that every time
a fly hits your Ercoupe in flight that it stops it?
The thinking goes like this. You are flying along and hit a fly.
The fly was buzzing along at say 5 kts towards you. After impact it
is flying in the other direction at your airspeed of say 85 kts. So
it slowed up to stationary, then accelerated in the other direction.
So at some stage it wasn’t moving, so therefore neither was your
Ercoupe. So the fly stopped your ‘Coupe!
Happy puzzling,
Mike
