MeStinkBAD said:Well, here's another Pict of my [Dad's] PowerBook. I just wanted to show this so I canmake ZenPirate's iBook inferior. BWAHAHA! (It's all in god spirits...)
phil said:
no. the water would not reach up and snatch the plane. let me try to inject some sense into this. in fact and in effect, a firm surface(whatever it may be) located directly under a plane would cause quite the opposite of a sucking phenomenon. it's not an unusual occurance for a pilot to find his plane subject to even more "lift" (actually it's being pushed upward) close to the ground (my father is a pilot so there ). it's roughly akin to aquaplaning (hydro..?), when you're going too fast in the rain. for aircraft, there is simply little room for the air to be forced downward (or compressed) between the plane and the ground at extremely low altitude. the ground discourages the air from being forced even further downward, directly, than would happen in flight at altitude.Rogue said:I like Kiss. the theory.
Jet's usually don't fly that close to water, if they get too much moisture in their engines it's not good.
Though it IS possible. I've seen it before. But not at that speed, it'd probably get pulled into the water, plus the intake feild at that distance would be different.