User contributions for Dolphin51
A user with 30,678 edits. Account created on 30 June 2007.
19 May 2024
- 01:2501:25, 19 May 2024 diff hist +23 m Eric Dorman-Smith Unencyclopaedic to use a pronoun at the first mention of the subject in a Section. current
18 May 2024
- 22:3322:33, 18 May 2024 diff hist +5 m Ernest Hemingway →World War I: syntax current
- 22:0122:01, 18 May 2024 diff hist −2 Bernoulli's principle →top: The first sentence or two in the lead should introduce the topic using wording that is meaningful to the broadest possible audience. current
- 13:3613:36, 18 May 2024 diff hist +1,236 Talk:Concorde →Maximum speed: Reply to Martin Gazdik current Tag: Reply
- 12:4212:42, 18 May 2024 diff hist −305 m Talk:Outline of computer science Insubstantial post by 1224431975 by 2402:E000:6BD:B536:0:0:0:1 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 12:4112:41, 18 May 2024 diff hist −212 m Talk:Torricelli's law Insubstantial post by 2402:E000:6BD:B536:0:0:0:1 (talk) current Tag: Undo
17 May 2024
- 07:1207:12, 17 May 2024 diff hist −1,197 User:Dolphin51/Sandbox2 →top: Crow instabilities current
16 May 2024
- 13:2513:25, 16 May 2024 diff hist +3,590 Talk:Glyphosate-based herbicides →Abbreviation for millilitre: Reply to Tryptofish Tags: Disambiguation links added Reply
15 May 2024
- 01:4201:42, 15 May 2024 diff hist +2,657 Talk:Glyphosate-based herbicides →Abbreviation for millilitre: new section Tag: New topic
14 May 2024
- 22:3622:36, 14 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Glyphosate-based herbicides →Human: Changed abbreviation of litre from l to the more appropriate L in three places. Tag: Reverted
- 13:0213:02, 14 May 2024 diff hist +386 Talk:Ram pressure →Inconsistency: Reply to new enquiry current Tag: Reply
- 03:1203:12, 14 May 2024 diff hist −17 Takeoff and landing →top: Pilots do not takeoff until reaching a speed significantly faster than the speed at which lift can equal weight, because that is the stall speed, and it is considered unsafe to fly close to the ground without a 20% margin above the stall. current
13 May 2024
- 23:1123:11, 13 May 2024 diff hist +8 m Janet Albrechtsen →Personal life: Unencyclopaedic to use a pronoun at the first mention of the subject in a Section. current
- 22:5022:50, 13 May 2024 diff hist +1,100 User talk:Dolphin51/Sandbox →Comments: Reply to Rcgldr current Tag: Reply
- 22:0422:04, 13 May 2024 diff hist −22 m Tip-speed ratio →The case against variable speed wind turbines: Erased redundant, unencyclopaedic words. current
- 11:5111:51, 13 May 2024 diff hist −1 Allegra Spender →Early life and education: “... completed ... from ...”?
12 May 2024
- 22:2322:23, 12 May 2024 diff hist −24 European potato failure →Potatoes at the time: Syntax. “... museums with DNA sequencing techniques ...”?
- 12:2912:29, 12 May 2024 diff hist −2 Slingsby T67 Firefly →Variants: Thinner air? Replaced by more encyclopaedic language. current
- 12:1912:19, 12 May 2024 diff hist +17 GAF Nomad →Operational history: Refined image caption current
- 12:0612:06, 12 May 2024 diff hist +161 GAF Nomad →Notable incidents: Refined description of fatal accident in March 1990.
11 May 2024
- 21:2121:21, 11 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Addie Viola Smith →top: Sentence construction.
- 21:1521:15, 11 May 2024 diff hist +4 m Laplace equation for irrotational flow →top: Wikilinked current
- 21:0321:03, 11 May 2024 diff hist +1 Dassault Mirage III Australian procurement →top: The Mirage is clearly not a helicopter so better to describe it as having a delta wing. Divided one long sentence into two. current
- 12:2812:28, 11 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Wind tunnel →Qualitative methods: Eliminated unnecessary capitalisation. current
- 12:2412:24, 11 May 2024 diff hist +2 Wind tunnel →top: In this sentence, “in which” is more appropriate than “where”.
- 12:2012:20, 11 May 2024 diff hist +1 May 2024 solar storms →top: Fixed my error made in my previous edit.
- 12:1912:19, 11 May 2024 diff hist −34 May 2024 solar storms →top: Rationalised comment about “lower latitudes”.
10 May 2024
- 22:4122:41, 10 May 2024 diff hist +255 User talk:Dolphin51/Sandbox →Comments: Reply to Rcgldr Tag: Reply
- 22:3822:38, 10 May 2024 diff hist +1,148 User talk:Dolphin51/Sandbox →Comments: Reply to Rcgldr Tag: Reply
- 21:5921:59, 10 May 2024 diff hist +4 m De Havilland Express →Operational history: Inserted missing word “the”. current
- 12:2912:29, 10 May 2024 diff hist +16 De Havilland Comet →Accidents and incidents: Divided one long sentence into two. current
- 12:2612:26, 10 May 2024 diff hist −57 m De Havilland Comet →top: Amended image caption. Flaps do not increase lift because lift is equal to the weight of the aircraft. Flaps lower the stalling speed.
- 12:2312:23, 10 May 2024 diff hist +6 m Vickers VC10 →Accidents and incidents: corrected abbreviation for pounds. current
- 12:1512:15, 10 May 2024 diff hist −15 Bristol Britannia →Accidents and incidents: Refined summary of accident at Shannon Airport in September 1977. current
9 May 2024
- 21:5421:54, 9 May 2024 diff hist −13 Work (physics) →top: Refined a sentence. This sentence needs to use similar wording to the following sentence about negative work.
- 21:4821:48, 9 May 2024 diff hist +24 Karl Marx →Health: Syntax! What could be intended by saying his death occurred “after joining” the drinking club?
- 21:4121:41, 9 May 2024 diff hist −8 Karl Marx →Family: Erased redundant words. The sentence already contains the word “also”.
- 13:5113:51, 9 May 2024 diff hist −10 m Bernoulli's principle Reverted edit by Hj23456qwertyuiosdfghj (talk). The edit turned a blue link to red. Tag: Undo
8 May 2024
- 13:3713:37, 8 May 2024 diff hist −17 Waranga Dam →Distribution of the water: Syntax. It was the farmers who were experiencing severe drought; not the Goulburn Irrigation System. current
7 May 2024
- 08:2608:26, 7 May 2024 diff hist 0 Timeline of Australian inventions →20th century Post-Federation – 1901–1945: Syntax. “... Women’s Hospital, Sydney whose heart continued to beat ...” current
- 08:1308:13, 7 May 2024 diff hist −2 m Ernest Rutherford →Early life and education: Erased redundant word.
- 04:2104:21, 7 May 2024 diff hist +24 Bristol Britannia →Operational history: Identified and linked to location of photograph.
- 04:0404:04, 7 May 2024 diff hist −26 List of accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Viscount →1960s: Rationalised identification of location of two accidents in Australia. current
6 May 2024
- 22:4222:42, 6 May 2024 diff hist +23 Australian National Airways →Accidents and incidents: Linked to the location of the accident. current
- 22:3822:38, 6 May 2024 diff hist +11 m Australian National Airways →Accidents and incidents: Rationalised link to location of the accident.
- 22:3122:31, 6 May 2024 diff hist −11 List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1948 →September: Linking to the location of the crash. Other minor changes. current
- 22:2722:27, 6 May 2024 diff hist −4 m 1948 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash →top: Rationalised a link. No change to appearance of the text. current
- 22:2022:20, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1949 →July: Identifying location of this accident. current
- 10:2510:25, 6 May 2024 diff hist 0 m Tony Bonner →Personal life: Reordered paragraphs to better reflect the subject’s personal life.
- 10:1810:18, 6 May 2024 diff hist −23 m List of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-4 →1950s: Eliminated overlinking. MOS deprecates linking to country names. The flight from Perth to York only lasted 19 minutes. current
- 10:0110:01, 6 May 2024 diff hist −82 List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1946 →top: Refined details of accident in Australia. A root cause could not be determined unambiguously by a judicial enquiry. current
5 May 2024
- 11:5811:58, 5 May 2024 diff hist −9 Gillard government →Restoration of offshore processing: Erased two redundant words. current
- 10:1710:17, 5 May 2024 diff hist −6 m Consolidated PBY Catalina →Post-World War II employment: Erased redundant word from image caption.
- 08:5808:58, 5 May 2024 diff hist 0 Consolidated PBY Catalina →Maritime patrol: syntax of image caption
4 May 2024
- 22:4022:40, 4 May 2024 diff hist +89 Bracing (aeronautics) →Lift struts: An example of a Transport category aircraft with a strut-braced wing - the Short 360. current
- 12:4912:49, 4 May 2024 diff hist −4 Wonkwang University →top: Sentence construction. current
3 May 2024
- 12:1912:19, 3 May 2024 diff hist +858 Talk:Work hardening →I am new to this field, but I may have found a mistake in the figure: Reply Tag: Reply
2 May 2024
- 22:5122:51, 2 May 2024 diff hist −169 International Civil Aviation Organization →Aircraft registrations: Inserted the appropriate Wikipedia list. Erased unencyclopaedic material.
- 04:4704:47, 2 May 2024 diff hist +6 Pilatus PC-6 Porter →Accidents and incidents: Refinements regarding accident involving aircraft operated by the Australian Army.
30 April 2024
- 22:4422:44, 30 April 2024 diff hist +22 m Chris Wreford-Brown Unencyclopaedic to use a pronoun at the first mention of the subject in a Section. current
- 22:2522:25, 30 April 2024 diff hist −7 HMS Monarch (1911) →top: Erased two redundant words. current
- 13:4913:49, 30 April 2024 diff hist −9 Wingtip vortices →Gallery: Vortices always form at the ends of propeller blades generating thrust. Saying they "can be formed" is misleading, suggesting that if you can't see them they aren't there. current
- 13:1513:15, 30 April 2024 diff hist 0 Airbus Industrie Flight 129 →Investigation: Changed words to more accurately describe the purpose of the Captain's actions. current
29 April 2024
- 13:1813:18, 29 April 2024 diff hist −17 USS Oklahoma (BB-37) →Attack on Pearl Harbor: Syntax. "capsizes in a photo"?
- 10:5310:53, 29 April 2024 diff hist −18 m Calorie Reverted edit by 195.224.72.132 (talk) to last version by PtPlatinum78 current Tag: Rollback
- 01:5701:57, 29 April 2024 diff hist +9 De Havilland DH.88 Comet →Surviving aircraft: Divided one long sentence into two.
28 April 2024
- 22:0922:09, 28 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Airfoil Reverted incorrect spelling by 49.207.212.181 (talk) current Tag: Undo
27 April 2024
- 11:5511:55, 27 April 2024 diff hist +721 Talk:Rotating reference frame Reply to question regarding no friction in rotating turntable. current
26 April 2024
- 23:5923:59, 26 April 2024 diff hist +68 Flight recorder →Deployable recorders: Refinements to technical content, syntax and formatting. The first paragraph has been divided into two so consideration of cost and government subsidies are separate from the engineering detail. current
- 14:0314:03, 26 April 2024 diff hist +1,370 User talk:MrOllie →Guidelines related to Talk pages: new section Tag: New topic
24 April 2024
- 11:1411:14, 24 April 2024 diff hist +80 Australian White →top: Insert Australian White Suffolk current
23 April 2024
- 23:5023:50, 23 April 2024 diff hist +260 Talk:Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum: I have removed the section related to momentum. current Tag: Reply
- 23:4923:49, 23 April 2024 diff hist −658 Oberth effect I removed the entire section related to momentum, as discussed on the Talk page.
- 23:4823:48, 23 April 2024 diff hist +244 Talk:Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum: No response so I will remove the section related to momentum. Tag: Reply
- 22:4622:46, 23 April 2024 diff hist +219 Oberth effect →Description in terms of work: Technical refinements. For example: “Rockets produce the same thrust ...” Not true.
- 12:3412:34, 23 April 2024 diff hist +27 N Australian White Suffolk Created redirect. Australian White Suffolk is an alternative name for the White Suffolk breed of sheep. current Tag: New redirect
- 11:5211:52, 23 April 2024 diff hist +14 George Coles (entrepreneur) Unencyclopaedic to use a pronoun at the first mention of the subject in a Section. Wikilinking. current
- 11:4211:42, 23 April 2024 diff hist +50 Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 →Aircraft: Adjusted a paragraph. Wikilinking and placement of sentences in chronological order.
22 April 2024
- 06:2106:21, 22 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Handley Page Halifax →Halifax 57 Rescue: punctuation
- 02:3302:33, 22 April 2024 diff hist −21 Oberth effect →Description in terms of work: Force multiplied by displacement is not mechanical energy.
20 April 2024
- 08:1808:18, 20 April 2024 diff hist −227 Cruise (aeronautics) →Airliner cruise: Erased sentences that were technically unsound, and unsourced. In the cruise an aircraft does not need more lift or less lift because the required lift is simply equal to the weight of the aircraft. current
19 April 2024
- 22:4122:41, 19 April 2024 diff hist −14 m Anthony Scaramucci →Early life: Erased redundant sentiment. No reader will make the mistake of assuming there were only 4 students at Harvard Law School.
- 12:0312:03, 19 April 2024 diff hist +226 m Heat capacity Reverted edits by 124.63.198.221 (talk) to last version by 2601:500:8900:BD3D:8938:A71E:D094:6A49 current Tag: Rollback
- 12:0012:00, 19 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Normal force Reverted unnecessary capitalization by 103.206.137.188 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 12:0012:00, 19 April 2024 diff hist −4 m Force Reverted unnecessary capitalization by 103.206.137.188 (talk) Tag: Undo
18 April 2024
- 22:4922:49, 18 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Ernst Mach →top: Changed “an Czech” to “a Czech”. current
17 April 2024
- 21:3721:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Terminal ballistics Reduced over-capitalisation in section headings. See MOS:SECTIONCAPS current
16 April 2024
- 22:1922:19, 16 April 2024 diff hist +1,796 Talk:Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum: new section Tags: Disambiguation links added New topic
- 13:1113:11, 16 April 2024 diff hist +28 Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum: Identified origin of source nominated in inline citation. See also my previous edits to this page.
- 12:1812:18, 16 April 2024 diff hist −89 User:Dolphin51/sandbox →Graphics current Tag: Manual revert
- 08:1808:18, 16 April 2024 diff hist −16 m Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum: Erased dead URL and inserted new URL.
- 08:1408:14, 16 April 2024 diff hist +89 User:Dolphin51/sandbox →Graphics Tag: Reverted
- 07:5707:57, 16 April 2024 diff hist +14 m 2023 Chinese balloon incident →China: Syntax. Leaving US airspace was not “in violation of the spirit of international law” etc.
- 06:2906:29, 16 April 2024 diff hist −1 Oberth effect Another iteration. See my previous edit to this page.
- 06:0306:03, 16 April 2024 diff hist +35 Oberth effect →Explanation in terms of momentum and kinetic energy: This was a very muddled attempt at explanation because momentum and kinetic energy are significantly different quantities. I divided the two. There is further work for me to do.
- 05:2505:25, 16 April 2024 diff hist +3 m Harry Seidler →Early life: syntax current
- 05:1805:18, 16 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Clive Evatt →Life after politics: Unencyclopaedic to use a pronoun at the first mention of the subject in a Section. current
15 April 2024
- 14:2214:22, 15 April 2024 diff hist +2,890 User talk:Dolphin51/Sandbox →Comments: Reply to Rcgldr Tag: Reply
14 April 2024
- 22:2122:21, 14 April 2024 diff hist −1 m Kialla, Victoria →top: Erased redundant comma. current
- 11:4611:46, 14 April 2024 diff hist −179 m Aircraft gross weight This article is all about weight, not mass. Reverted good faith edit by 1218830062 by 2400:1A00:B050:6298:25EC:9FC4:6F90:7202 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 11:3411:34, 14 April 2024 diff hist +26 m Glaser-Dirks DG-200 →top: Wikilink current
- 11:3111:31, 14 April 2024 diff hist +3 Glaser-Dirks DG-200 →top: Refined presentation of some of the details
- 11:1811:18, 14 April 2024 diff hist −8 m Gouache →History: Refined image caption.
13 April 2024
- 22:4322:43, 13 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Viscometer →Quartz Crystal Microbalance: Eliminated unnecessary capital letters in section heading in accordance with MOS. current
- 22:3222:32, 13 April 2024 diff hist +222 Talk:Antiderivative →Physics example: Reply current Tag: Reply
12 April 2024
- 14:1514:15, 12 April 2024 diff hist +639 Talk:Force →Derivatives of Force: Reply Tag: Reply
- 12:5312:53, 12 April 2024 diff hist 0 m Viscosity →Measurement: The comment about close temperature control applies to both viscometers and rheometers. I switched two sentences to avoid the impression that close temperature control is only relevant to rheometers.
- 12:4912:49, 12 April 2024 diff hist +673 Talk:Force →Derivatives of Force: Reply Tag: Reply