boing wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:25 amAfter incantations, deliberations and much meditation a thought, a memory, buried deep in my mind slowly began to rise like a tiny bubble created at the floor of the deepest ocean. I moved to the secret door and using my new found knowledge forced it open against its rusty hinges. Once through the door I entered the long dark passageway draped with cobwebs which led to the holy of holys. The door of this sanctum pushed aside easily and I was soon facing a collection of the most holy and venerated scriptures. Somehow my hand knew where to reach and I soon had the third most holy manuscript of this treasury in my hands. Dusty it was and faded but thanks to the many years of darkness the words were almost as clear as when they were first written in it's archaic text. In my hands were several hundred pages of the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the great thinkers and men who had gone before, men to whom I would never be able to hold a candle or thank sufficiently for their gifts. I studied the cover before I dared open the tome. The proud symbol on the cover boasted of the provenance of the work.
My fingers searched eagerly through the pages as I experienced the eery feeling that I had held this document before and that I knew much of its content. I finally found the words that I was searching for, my premonition had been correct, here was the mystic formula I sought couched in the most simple of terms for those that would understand.
Unfortunately much of the rest of this volume was written in a strange language that only the initiated would comprehend. I offer an example in the hope that some student of the Way finding this tale may be able to interpret its wisdom.
Tamam
It is good to see that the ancient runes of the Brobdingnagian giants of the RAF match those of the far less exulted, but much admired, by me, instructor, who wrote up the notes handed down to my unworthy hand all those years ago.
Amazingly Wiki makes a good fist of making the subject almost enjoyable as well...
Zero-lift drag coefficient...