Trying To Make The Barn Door Fly
We engineers have a saying: "Given enough thrust, even a barn door can fly." Now, one does not have to have a PhD in Aerospace Engineering to understand how non-aerodynamic a barn door is. But the saying is indeed true: if you strap a big enough engine (some call it a rocket) to a barn door, it will indeed fly. And by "fly" I mean careen haphazardly though the air leaving a trail of destruction in its wake as it slams into things at random.- Saturday, September 22, 2012