RE: what is your bananafish?

there is a wonderful concise expressiveness to this
post.

kim

--- Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE
<daniel.yocum@Peterson.af.mil> wrote:
> A sub has to contend with fluid friction primarily
> while the surface boys
> are trying to ride the wave since max theoritical
> speed for a surface ship
> is described by 1.333 times the square root of its
> water line length.
>
> Daniel
> an armchair sailor
>
>
> '...wind (or fluid) resistance occurs at the
> trailing end
> of an object, not at the front ...'
>
> Which is why I've always been puzzled why
> destroyers
> have snouts like knives - while subs have tear
> drop shapes.
> Hoccum?
>
> Scottie B.
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