Talk:Snowmobile skipping

Add Snowmobile Skimming to the page title.
In April 2011, a Vermont man died in Lancaster, NH after falling off a snowmobile while skimming on open water on the Connecticut River. Source: http://www.wmur.com/news/27438082/detail.html?treets=man&tml=man_4pm&ts=T&tmi=man_4pm_1_02000104052011

Requirement for "skipping"
Both the quoted figures, and the reference, are dubious. No physical principles underpinning the figures are given, and a simple dimensional analysis argument suggests the "rule of thumb" is incorrect. For skipping, the vertical component of the reaction force (thrust) produced by the water forced backwards by the tread must be on the order of the weight of the snowmobile + rider. The thrust will scale as d(mv)/dt = v.dm/dt, where dm/dt is the mass of water ejected backwards per unit time at speed of tread v; dm/dt ~ (Av).v where A is the width of the tread available for producing the thrust, so thrust ~ v^2, and so we would expect the speed required to counteract the weight to scale as v-squared, not v as claimed in the reference. Robma (talk) 10:59, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

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