Airflow Quotes

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

Everything I'd taught myself about screaming is basically a big no-no for singing. Your posture, your airflow - you're just pushing all the air out. When you start out, you're fast, heavy and loud but you're hiding behind it in a way. When you stop screaming, that's when it gets hard.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Please leave the window open.

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

On the RFactor model that comes with the 'Pro-Sim,' everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you're on a race weekend.

I can't live in a room without a window.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

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.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments I'm wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air.

Some people really like to have an open car that lets them see everything. Of course, others want the squinty, protected feeling of something like the Chrysler 300.