User talk:Tjfigueroa

Mach Tuck edits
Thanks for adding the "History" sub-part to the "Mach tuck" page. Actually, yesterday I went to the Mach tuck page to learn more about it. I had a very rudimentary understanding of it, despite having an extensive background both in the cockpit as a pilot and as a lover of aviation and physics/engineering.

I was severly disappointed by the original posting. It was ambiguous, some parts were counter-intuitive, and some of the implied cause-and-effects were just plain wrong. So, I cracked open some old text books, scanned a few discussion boards online, and did my own research until I felt I had a grasp on not only what Mach tuck was but more importantly, why it happens. Until yesterday, I wasn't even a member of wikipedia but felt compelled to edit the old Mach tuck page. I wanted to make it a basic enough explanation so that people without much of an aviation or physics background could be guided through the more advanced topics and hopefully make it more understandable. Thanks for adding the part about the P38. I knew about older WWII fighters having serious Mach tuck problems but didn't know the specifics.

That was the first edit I'd ever made. I noticed you're a member of an aviation sub-group. How do I become a member? I'd love to continue working on aviation-related articles. I have a wealth of knowledge across a broad spectrum of aviation ranging from technical aerodynamic physics, pilotage, aircraft systems, and even FAA regulations. Do you have any ideas of how I can be more useful aside from just browsing and finding mistakes as they come up?

Thanks,

T.J. Figueroa (talk) 19:38, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Why, thank you for your excellent and full revision of the Mach tuck article. When I saw that somebody unknown to me had more than doubled the size of the article, I was expecting the worst. It was on my watchlist (I was monitoring it for changes) but very little was going on with it and frankly, I had forgotten about it. What a fantastic reworking and clarification! Your timing was fortuitous for me in that I had just been reading about that exact phenomena in a book about the development and usage of the P-38. I turned around and used the book as my reference in adding that bit of early history.


 * Because of the post-WWII confusion and loss of technical documents, we don't have much Mach tuck data on the fastest German fighter, the jet-powered Swallow. I wonder what kind of hell they went through trying to get a wing that would ease them past that difficulty...


 * It's simple to join a wikiproject: just add your name to the member list. Go to WikiProject Aviation/Members and edit yourself in! Consider this your (unnecessary) formal invitation. Cheers! Binksternet (talk) 19:58, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

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