At least now we know, that it’s a general western mentality to divide people into human and subhuman groups, not just the Nazi Germany. All masks are off
The idea for the Baltics is that east-west lines can remain Russian gauge but north-south lines (esp. new ones) are European gauge.
Discussions of a Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel suggest that Finland would at least lay European gauge tracks to Espoo and Helsinki-Vantaa airport, and maybe also to Tampere.
When speaking to Americans, I explain the wartime co-operation between Finland and Germany as, "The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my 'friend', but we can do business."
> Did they fly basically the same when chucked upside-down ?
sadly, never occurred to me to try.
> There's that stabilizer to complicate things.
True, getting the tailplane right is kind of key to a successful aircraft. but these would have been basically the same as the wings. so they may have provided some lift, and so some down-pitch?
I tried, and yes, an inverted balsa-wood glider will still fly. Actually just tried right now with a styrofoam glider, upside-down, and it's fine. Marginally less range than when flying right-side-up, but it's a very small difference.
I suspect that what's going on is that the center-of-gravity interacts with the center-of-lift to create a slight angle of attack regardless of what orientation the plane itself has. Then there is some unknown feedback loop that keeps that angle of attack from getting too large and stalling. It's not unlimited - if you make a paper airplane whose wings are too far forward or center of gravity is too far back, it will still stall - but it keeps most reasonable planes moving forward rather than down.
Yeah, I agree it must have something to do with the forces on the model.
I loved playing with these things way back when (1960s) - the most frightening one was a model attached to a jetex rocket engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetex which after taking off immediately immolated itself, which I suppose is par for rocket powered aircraft, of any size.
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