Toupees and airplane wings?

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Wind tunnel strength is being used by volunteers wearing toupees attached with a strong adhesive. If the toupee blows off, the wind tunnel is considered to be safe in testing the strength of airplane wings. However, if a man's toupee is sucked into an aircraft's jet engine while he is on the tarmac, he may be charged with sabotage. Balding pilots are advised to take note of this.

Is this a good way to test airplanes?

Answer 1

Seek therapy.

Answer 2

This is a most unusual question.

Answer 3

This sounds like a joke. But to offer a serious answer, wind tunnel wind speeds are determined in order to provide specific Reynolds* numbers so that the aerodynamic engineers can make their tests and calculations. I'm afraid that toupees wouldn't have anything to do with it.

*Reynolds number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and is an important parameter in the investigation of lift and drag and basically any external fluid flow situation

Answer 4

Fred? Is that you? John Fred? Stop making

ridiculous jokes, Fred.

Answer 5

It doesn't sound any worse than the way Lybians do maintenance on their airplanes by throwing something that looks like applejuice on the engines.

Answer 6

it is a great one to test  toupees

Answer 7

This makes more sense than throwing a frozen chicken into the jet engine to test its ability to survive sucking in a bird while in flight...

Answer 8

This is exactly how Velcro was conceived.Toupees are also used in the testing of vacuum cleaners and garbage disposers.

Answer 9

You should be ok. Just don't walk too close to wind tunnels and no one will ever know. Your secret is safe on here.

Answer 10

As you may tell from my picture, I have experience in losing hair. To date, however, I have not been contacted by Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas or Lockheed.