Musical Wings Reduce Aircraft Stall Risk

notwrong writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that a Qantas engineer has found a way to help small aircraft avoid stalling at low speeds: pumping sound through the wings. He found that music also works, having tested Spiderbait and Radiohead (nice choices; Spiderbait apparently works better)."

Comments

Re:Spiderbait (slightly O/T)

[zaren]

I concur. I'd never heard of them before this (but have heard of Radiohead, and think they're overrated), so I hit the iTunes music store and checked out their Spiberbait samples, and found them quite good. Better still that I found out I still had two free downloads, so I burned them on Spiderbait. Who'd have thought I'd ever get *musical* advice from slashdot...

Re:Speaking as a pilot

[Lord_Dweomer]

"The point is that sound transducers would change all of this high precision engineering. "

Here's a hint...don't turn on the music then!