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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 16:34:33 UTC Robert McNees

Aerodynamics engineer and mathematician Irmgard Flügge-Lotz was born #OTD in 1903.
She advanced the understanding of aerodynamic pressure on wings and turbine blades, pioneered the theory of discontinuous control systems, and was the first woman named full professor of engineering at Stanford.
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1. Black and white photo of Irmgard Flügge-Lotz. She is wearing a polkadot blouse with a wide collar and a dark jacker, and looking at the camera. The blackboard behind her shows flow lines around an oblong object, and she is holding a similarly shaped object in her hand. It appears to be a smooth stone.
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- Richard Hendricks (hendric@astronomy.city)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 16:40:30 UTC Richard Hendricks
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  @mcnees Good ol' Professor flies-a-lot. :)
  
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- Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 16:40:30 UTC Robert McNees
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  - Richard Hendricks
  @hendric Yet she was completely unable to fly herself. Talk about “those who can't do, teach.”
  
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