Interestingly, the same guy ( Kelly Johnson) who was lead designer on the Lockheed P-38 also led the design team on the U-2 and the SR-71/A-12/F-12. Interesting aircraft, could carry bombs, torpedoes, a helluva gun load, was the first Allied aircraft to have compressibility problems 'cos it simply dove so fast, was capable of greater range than most ( though the P-47N was built with long range in mind ) with the appropriate auxuliary tanks and some clever flying…which was demonstrated to the front-line guys by one Charles Augustus Lindbergh.
Also - it may be argued that the main reason the P-38 ( and P-47 ) were replaced by the P-51 is the latter cost half as much to build…
wildly the finlets on tuna make them swim faster, as they swim, they make like a snake kinda motion through the water, and the finlets help get it an extra push fowards.
there’s another part to it too, but I don’t know it…
but so I don’t know how well they would work on a surfboard, because it’s kinda adifferent concept.
In a nutshell, George Zug believes the way to achieve a “progressive society” is to remove the poor, uneducated, and conservatives? And you think it’s funny? Come on. Mike
I remember there was a part where the crew would catch bonito (they call them dolphins)
Could these have been dolphin fish? [aka dorado/mahi mahi here in the pacific]
At any rate, I think a discussion on the tail fins of a tuna is much more pertinent to surfing. After all, remember that Greenough modeled his high aspect fin after the tuna’s tail. A friend who studied icthiology mentioned to me once that the width of the body next to the tail determines the speed the fish can attain. The narrower the width=faster fish.
