In a message dated 7/25/00 5:26:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
twalk1@earthlink.net writes:
<< I sucked. Couldn't fly my way out of a wet paper bag.>>
Now wait a minute, don't be so hard on yourself.. Let's ponder the logistics of
attempting to fly out of a wet paper bag...
Depending on the type of bag ( handled, elongated, serrated, ,,, etc ) and
factoring the SIZE of such a paper bag in order to encompass the entirety of an
F4F3, compounding that with the weight the water necessary to saturate said
bag, and the tactile forces of the bag clinging to the flight surfaces of the
plane ( both bag and plane must be moving at a velocity at least equal to the
stall speed of the Wildcat, otherwise, even if you did get out of the bag, you
wouldn't technically be flying ) and the potential terminal velocity of such a
wet paper bag, I venture to propose that most anyone would have a difficult
time under these circumstances. When one begins to consider other ramifications
such as trademark infringement lawsuits by the Enterprise Rent A Car company,
the whole scenario becomes, to be quite honest, rather frightening....
Everyone paint faces on their paper bag and we'll see if it works.... ( I don't
think the AW plane tag algorithm would know what to do with a bunch of airborne
bags, so we better plan ahead )