If You Direct Your Attention To The Position Of A Bird With Regard To The Wave Surface, It Will Speedily Be Noticed To Be Nearly Always On The Rising Side Or Face Of The Wave And Moving Apparently At Right Angles To The Wave's Course, But Really Diagonal To It.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

Lawrence Hargrave

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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.

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Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

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As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

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And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

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