SriLankan Airlines insisted there was no danger in flying without a [5 ft] wing tip. It added: "They are purely for aerodynamics and to keep fuel costs to a minimum. There is no impact on safety at all. Safety is our absolute priority."
Hey, Coanda said that after the very first flight with a jet engine. Who cares about a little chunck of fuselage missing? Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Sunday, November 04, 2007
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Certainly Coanda had no idea that aerodynamics might be important to an airplane's functioning. That's why it took him a million years after the Wright brothers to get off the ground and it was as a cloud of smoke that he made it.
A million years = a couple of years, yes? And he used a jet engine, not horse-buggy power and wind speed to lift him off the ground. So well, OK, he didn't fly long -- like, a few feet, maybe? -- before smoke started coming out of his ears, but so what? Powwww!!!
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