Geez, what a dry, humorless bunch. I said it was a joke at Permalink #11
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Well, it spoils the joke but Okay:
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The joke is that it's really...ground turbulence.
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QED (
quod erat demonstrandum or it is proven) was the punchline, because it wasn't.
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Originally Posted by MobilOne
Along he same line, I remember reading, a long time ago, that during WWII, the Germans, flying from somewhere in Europe, (Germany or Spain) had scheduled passenger flights between Germany and Buenos Aires using the Condor passenger plane. The pilot told how they flew 25 feet above the ocean with the engines throttled back and covered great distances that way.
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I heard the same story, but it was about the
Dornier Do X. It made one flight to Brazil in 1931 and returned via Newfoundland. What a DoX in ground effect might look like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_X
Wikipedia shows one trans-Atlantic flight for the Condor:
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It was the first heavier-than-air craft to fly nonstop between Berlin and New York City (c.4000 miles), making the flight from Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett Field on 10/11 August 1938
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And that they were operated by two Brazilian airlines. The Do X
had to be re-engined to reach a ceiling of 500m, the Condor reached 3000m, limited by the unpressurized cabin.