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Old 06-03-2011, 06:01 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
beer,you'll want to keep an eye out for flutter.The steps will have a natural frequency and harmonics of that frequency in which they'll vibrate like a tuning fork.If not sufficiently stiff enough for dampening they can shake themselves apart in the vortex.
So at air speed X it could shake apart. Does that also mean that at air speed Y it could perform at it's best? Is there an optimum step shape for every MPH?

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