*Cringe*. That's not a boundary layer: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane... | Hacker News

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starpilot on Feb 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Declassified: America's Secret Flying Saucer

Cringe. That's not a boundary layer: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/boundlay.html

If you're talking about a planetary boundary layer, then ground effect occurs within that because the PBL extends to the ground.

roc on Feb 14, 2013 [–]

Sorry about that. I didn't mean boundary layer as a technical term. I just meant the problem was in the transition from the ground-effect-dominated regime to the regime of traditional flight.

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