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Old 08-24-2020, 04:33 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vman455 View Post
You're starting to sound like aerohead, repeating yourself--you've commented on this book before!

To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, I was young then--I hadn't started any engineering coursework when I posted this, and to quote another of my teachers (John Walter Hill, longtime musicology professor at the University of Illinois), "that was back when I believed everything I read."
Yes I have commented on that book before, but not that part. My main point, that you have paraphrased, is that people should be skeptical about what is posted here.

Note that no-one at the time said that the extract was obviously wrong - the confusion of wing and spoiler should have alerted even the greatest tyro. (Instead, two people 'liked' the post!)
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