Klarinet Archive - Posting 000700.txt from 2001/04

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "everyone knows" ..... correction
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:31:18 -0400

--- William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net> wrote:
> <><> I wrote:
> One 'impossibility' that amused me was a rigorous proof by an
> aeronautical engineer in the 1940s (1920s?) that airplanes will
> absolutely never be able to fly faster than 300 mph
>
>
>
> Well, I messed that one up! I should have looked the article up
> before I posted.
>
> After I received an email that a plane hit 460 mph in 1939, I did
> look it up. The article (October 1928) actually said that a
> plane/rocket/whatever would need to fly at an _altitude_ (not speed) of
> 300 miles in order not to be destroyed at speeds of 1000 mph.
>
> My apologies.

Indeed. To us discerning clarinetists, oversights like these are
well nigh unforgivable. Your punishment: buy 20 boxes of Vandoren
hand-select, soak them all in a bowl of water for ten minutes, and
rub down each one in succession with the tip of your index finger
until you've closed the pores of all 200 reeds. Re-box them and
ship them all to ME, because I'm going through reed hell, and
damned if I have time to mess with it right now!

~ Neil

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