Klarinet Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2001/09

From: fred.sheim@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Reeds lasting longer, and aeroplanes
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:02:41 -0400

Great- with that mental imagery I think I'll book a slow boat to Stockholm
next summer!

Fred

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>Consider how aeroplanes have changed over the years. It used to be the
>case, in the early days of flight, that if something went wrong with an
>aeroplane -- say, the engine failed -- you could glide to a landing.
>
>But modern aeroplanes, of which the extreme case is a high-performance
>fighter, aren't like that. If the *computer* fails, you can crash. A
>modern aeroplane is unstable, and kept in the air by a highly
>sophisticated control system, in order to optimise its performance. And
>you can do much more in a modern aircraft, precisely because it is
>nearly always in this unstable situation.
>
<SNIP>
>Tony
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