Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 10 Mar 2025 05:02:34 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yJ6FVrSUab1xIaF9kr/4TwNf/Dd3DEgrJ9NA9lrmGNhyht25xB Cancel-Lock: sha1:p7QgtTic5Cl+UW7H/CtY3mY2pCM= sha256:efF0TnUapNPC++e1Etkkzcj7WYtT1yxj678m0A/DjyU= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2307 On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:18:26 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Once landed a Cessna when a huge headwind gust came up when I was > just four or five feet above the runway. > QUICKLY 'flew' it down because in a few secs the headwind would stop > and I've had had zero airspeed. Instead, landed at zero GROUND speed. > Freaky. In distant retrospect I was the only kid they'd rent a plane > on gusty days - had a knack for it. Better than the birds. For whatever reason the stretch of road south of Carson City NV can be pretty windy. I watched a bird land who, I don't think you could call it negative ground speed, was rather surprised when he was going backwards at touchdown. Not very graceful. I also watched a raven playing in the wind breaking over a ridge line. He had zero ground speed and was happily gliding about six feet off the ground. He would slowly lose altitude and give a couple of flaps to get back up. No wonder humans spend centuries asking "Why can't we do that?"