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"Use of these relationships allows the direct determination of ice shapes adjusted for any given icing and flight condition as well as for size and sweep of the airfoil" 1 Experimental ice shapes compared to a LEWICE analysis. Summary...
"... all publicly available IRT-generated experimental ice shapes with complete and verifiable conditions have now been compiled into one electronically-searchable database" NASA Report E-16236 1. Public Domain image from NASA Report...
"No data is clean, but most is useful." attributed to Dean Abbott. Ice shape tracing points that are mis-ordered and mis-aligned with the airfoil. Introduction The IceVal database is a significant achievement that is still yielding...
"The resulting analysis showed that LEWICE compared well to the available experimental data." 1 An example of a good comparison between analysis and experiment. Introduction The IceVal database 2, and its predecessors, were originally...
Pedro is vast, but he is also hidden and mysterious, tucked behind locked doors and a colloquy of priests and doctors.
If you love pre-Code as much as I do, you’ll tune into TCM on Friday, May 15th for one of the best satiny line-ups I’ve seen since Heck was a pup! I’ve written about each of these features here at Shadows and Satin — I’m listing the...
I was on the bus on my way to an important business meeting about the exponential growth of my MRR, when suddenly I noticed some troublemakers were hassling an old lady. Their caps were on backwards, their clothes were baggy, and...
Here is a sonnet for Ascension Day, the glorious finale of the Easter Season. In the mystery of the Ascension we reflect on the way in which, one sense Christ ‘leaves’ us and is taken away into Heaven, but in another sense he … Continue...
What things have been in my earholes and eyeballs since the last time I did one of these? • Front 242. Another band with difficult licensing, some of their good albums are on streaming, some are not. Those missing albums I added manually...
Private letters among friends.
I’m doing a couple of qualitative action research projects at work and, as one does in qual research, have collected a huge amount of data (mostly student work samples) and now have to figure out how to analyze it. 📓
Despite all the effort, dollars spent, words written and time wasted there have only been two good Hannibal Lecter movies. This and Silence of the Lambs. Director Jonathan Demme brought the Thomas Harris book to life in Silence of the...