Help! Need airplane video material for a class...

[kath]

Hi, folks,

Today in my intro physics class we did "Bernoulli's Principle". Next class (Wednesday), I want to give them a lecture on the "physics of flight". Looking for the following:

--video of an aerobatic plane (or fighter jet) flying upside down for a prolonged period of time
--video of "downwash" from a big jet over clouds (I know I've seen this one somewhere...)
--animation of air molecules going over a wing (I know I've seen this one too, but can't remember where)
--video of wind-tunnel tests depicting something cool (like turbulence just before a stall)
--photos: cross-section of a wing, and an aerobatic wing for comparison
--a short (1-2 page) article on angle of attack and lift, suitable for handing out

--similar video for sailboat sails?
--anything else you think might be cool for a physics student to see (they especially like animations and things that move!)

Thanks in advance!

--Kath

 

[Richard]

Don't know if it will help you this time around but for future reference:

http://aero.calpoly.edu/facilities/aerodyn.html

Here is a good reference that may help for your current needs:

http://www.av8n.com/how/

And, as always, an excellent source:

http://www.whittsflying.com/Page0Major%20topic%20headings.htm#anchor23246

Dig through Whitt's page to find appropriate animations. They're in there somewhere.

Would this help?

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Wright/airplane/tunnlint.html

I think y'all should build a wind tunnel and test those equations.

 

[EdFred]

Hey Kath -

What's with the polar bears (an arctic creature) on a miniaturized Antarctica in your avatar?

 

[Skip Miller]

These are some pretty impressive still photos from another thread.

-Skip

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/856005/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/496347/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/569626/L/

 

[jesse]

http://www.tailwindfoundation.org/videos/Peter_goes_low.mpg

Here is one of inverted flight at about 3 AGL.

(Someone posted it on another thread, Don't remember who)

 

[Richard]

Hey Kath -

What's with the polar bears (an arctic creature) on a miniaturized Antarctica in your avatar?

She's in the polar bear club having been to antartica several times. It don't matter if they don't know south from north....

 

[EdFred]

She's in the polar bear club having been to antartica several times. It don't matter if they don't know south from north....

Bah! Should have been penguins!
(sorry, I'm anal about stuff like that)

 

[kath]

She's in the polar bear club having been to antartica several times. It don't matter if they don't know south from north....

I work with a neutrino telescope project in Antarctica, but I am at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The project as a whole has a cute logo with a big and little penguin looking through a telescope. My logo (for the Alaska group on the project) is a variation on the theme...
(So, Ed, it is kind of an in-joke. Everyone knows there are no polar bears in Antarctica!)

AMANDA project logo: http://amanda.wisc.edu/kath/pengi-sinmundo.GIF
Alaska group logo: http://salt.uaa.alaska.edu/kath/alaska_logo.gif

Thanks for the links everyone!

--Kath

 

[Richard]

I work with a neutrino telescope project in Antarctica, but I am at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The project as a whole has a cute logo with a big and little penguin looking through a telescope. My logo (for the Alaska group on the project) is a variation on the theme...
(So, Ed, it is kind of an in-joke. Everyone knows there are no polar bears in Antarctica!)

AMANDA project logo: http://amanda.wisc.edu/kath/pengi-sinmundo.GIF
Alaska group logo: http://salt.uaa.alaska.edu/kath/alaska_logo.gif

Thanks for the links everyone!

--Kath

Wha? You use telescopes to see neutrinos? Don't blink.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

--video of wind-tunnel tests depicting something cool (like turbulence just before a stall)

I don't know where to find this video, but how about the results of flutter? There's a rather dramatic flutter video on the Internet somewhere that shows just how quickly something can be destroyed.

Don't forget flightlevel350.com (I think) that people have been posting videos from lately. There's some really good stuff on there.

 

[Henning]

Hi, folks,

Today in my intro physics class we did "Bernoulli's Principle". Next class (Wednesday), I want to give them a lecture on the "physics of flight".
--Kath

Interesting. What is being taught in "Intro to Physics" (what grade level is this class?) as to Bernoulli's Principle? I'm interested to know, because I know doctorate level aerodynamicists who have very different takes on this.