Angle Of Attack And Approach Drawings
 

I was inspired to do these drawings by Mr. Lynn Blake himself. He presented these drawings to us at our school a couple of weeks ago. With these drawings he helped us all realize that this is what it is all about. They have made teaching so much easier when students finally see what it is they are actually trying to do with the golf club.

I am sure Lynn will explain these in more depth.

Forever Hitting,
Hunter

Terminology and Viewpoint?
 

Great drawings. They got me thinking.

Do these names "attack" and "approach" coincide with airplane flight terminology :?: If so, when landing a planes "angle of attack" measures steepness while "angle of approach" measures runway alignment; right :?:

If the viewpoint for both drawings was perpendicular to the inclined plane, would not the angle of attack and approach be the same, just oriented 180* from each other :?:

SOS

To See Or Not To See
 

These Lines are, in fact, one and the same. One -- the Angle of Attack -- appears to the Golfer (from his 'above the Plane' view) to be inscribed upon the face of the Inclined Plane. The other --the Angle of Approach -- is its Visual Equivalent and appears to be inscribed upon the ground.

Re: Terminology and Viewpoint?
 

I haven't landed a Cessna in years but I don't remember a reference to an attack angle- at least not in the jargon of landing an airplane. We did use an angle of approach when landing and it was a downward angle that took the aircraft down to the beginning of the runway- a most important place to get to- you didn't want to be so close to the ground and not be short or long on the approach.

Lynn, for all of us city folk- how does a King Fischer attack?

Re: Terminology and Viewpoint?
 

[quote="6bmikeI haven't landed a Cessna in years but I don't remember a reference to an attack angle- at least not in the jargon of landing an airplane. We did use an angle of approach when landing and it was a downward angle that took the aircraft down to the beginning of the runway- a most important place to get to- you didn't want to be so close to the ground and not be short or long on the approach.

Lynn, for all of us city folk- how does a King Fischer attack?[/quote]

Ahhh! But you did have an "angle of attacK". This "angle of attack" is measured on the wing (airfoil). You controled the wing angle of attack with the "stick or wheel". You controled the rate of decent ( angle of approach) with the throttle.

I don't know what this has to do with golf but it was fun thinking about it again. :)

I hated "touch and goes." lol

Nice pics, a great 'sticky' that should be added to the top of the 'must view' threads in the beginner's section

I've never flown (well, landed anyway), but I played quite a lot of golf on an airforce base as a kid, I loved watching the F-16's do their touch and go runs, those guys know how to fly! To this day I swear I hit one with a wedge approach to the 16th hole, flying in a bit low that time!

Looks like in INCREDIBLY deep divot, no? :shock:

Principles
 

Rob's drawings are merely illustrative (of the geometric Principles) and are not 'to scale.' In actuality, a five foot Shoulder-to-Ball Radius (as opposed to the two inch Radius in the graphic) would have a much longer arc and hence a far more shallow Divot, even with the Ball located well behind Low Point.

I don't get it...
is the clubhead following the "clubhead orbit" in the diagram or is following the angle of attack?