Life is like an airplane wing

[cjsmith]

1. The more lift, the more drag.

2. But lift is still a lot better than no lift.

Comments

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

Just don't stall....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Except on landing! :-)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Very very true.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's all about making, and owning, my own choices. I choose lift.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yup! It's more fun to take the risk after figuring out the costs/potential costs and still knowing it's worth it, overall, even if you hit some turbulence along the way.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Plus it sure is better, at the moment when I hit some turbulence, to have gone into it with my eyes open. Being blindsided (particularly by something that I could have foreseen and planned for) is no fun.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

And around someplace you've observed turbulence before, you can either brace for it, or manuver around it...

*walks away whistling...*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

...or put your money in bonds for a while. ;-) Yeah.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

lift is still a lot better than no lift

Otherwise, you droop stall. ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

And the landing could really hurt!

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

And you can always work on reducing your equivalent flat plate area :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Right. I think I've been aluminum-and-rivets for too long. Time to try being composite.

[lrc.livejournal.com]

That icon is disconcerting. As one of those silly race car drivers, if I look up and see brown where blue ought to be, it's generally a bad sign.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I, on the other hand, am quite disappointed that in this icon the aircraft is actually right side up. Cheaters!!

[tmc4242.livejournal.com]

That's not exactly a natural state for a Pitts.

Icon Rev 2 is clearly in order. ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I wonder if anyone has pictures of ME doing acro. (I once went out in a Pitts S-2C with a chase plane of sorts... but they weren't close, because neither they nor I are suicidal.)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

too true!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Once I recognize this I can choose wisely. I could just sit and whine that I can't get lift without drag, or I could see what I CAN do and go from there.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

plus, it has its share of flaps (:

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

And attitude is important!