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LeHommeSuspendu · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90

I also received the second email with the numbers 1-4 & the attached upward-pointing arrow. I'm pretty sure this is the four forces of flight; Lift, Weight, Thrust & Drag. I am not positive that is the correct order or not though.

How this applies to the PW for the second locked post I'm not sure. I've tried at least a dozen passwords so far with no success.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:17 am

amandel

THANKS, LeHommeSuspendu, your hint was mega useful. Am placing PW #1 in spoilers below which we generally do with solves.
PW for Locked #1

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:25 am

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LeHommeSuspendu · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90

Anyone making any headway on the 2nd locked post? I've tried probably 3 dozen PWs with no luck.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:04 pm

r.m · Unfettered Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:14 pm

LeHommeSuspendu · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90

**Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:28 pm

r.m · Unfettered Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719

I did see the tweet about the case-sensitive PWs. I wish I would have thought to type all my PW ideas into a word doc first then C&Ping though.

I tried different forms of lift, aerodynamic(s), Bernoulli, Euler, airfoil(s), flight, Wright, Orville, Wilbur, Kitty Hawk, Dayton, camber. Because of the arrow in the email, I tried arrow and arrowdynamics just in case it indicated some wordplay. I also tried Icarus and Daedalus since museumgirlll said she like mythologizing.

In my searches I noticed the images with the arrows with the forces of flight and made the connection to the second email but didn't try each as a PW. Since you already have, I won't. Smile

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:43 am

spoonhead99

Since the first part of the clue reads like a flight text book I have also been trying passwords based on the history of aerodynamics with no luck.

From the second clue, I wonder if we will get three more pictures and the password will be the vector sum of all the arrows.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:17 am

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LeHommeSuspendu · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90

I'd be willing to bet that the PW is somewhere in here - http://www.americanflyers.net/aviationlibrary/pilots_handbook/chapter_1.htm Very Happy

I went ahead & bookmarked that site because I have a feeling it might come in handy for more puzzles.

I see that we've tried a lot of the same passwords.

I'm a little surprised that we haven't gotten at least another email clue by this point. Hopefully we'll get some kind of a nudge soon that will generate some more possible PWs.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:07 am

r.m · Unfettered Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719

That's some handbook! Maybe we'll end up with our pilots licenses at the end.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:25 pm

Zobot257

I cracked the first one without the spoiler. I'll try lockbox 2 later. Guess I'm playing in this one, yay!

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:22 pm

spoonhead99

Trying the wordplay angle

Shape of a wing = planform

Angle of attack also known as AOA represented by the greek symbol alpha.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:31 pm

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LeHommeSuspendu · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90

Yep, already tried "Planform" as a PW. The words "Alpha", "AlphaPlanform" & "AlphaFlight" are also not the correct PW.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:36 pm

Boxes · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2012 Posts: 11 Location: Canada

Stumbled across this forum and thought I'd join in ... I'm totally new to this and I'm not great at puzzles but what the heck. Followed Lisa on Twitter...

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:42 pm

Tharol

Think be stumped lists password.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:55 pm

Boxes · Boot Joined: 10 Jan 2012 Posts: 11 Location: Canada

I tried a bunch of butterfly wing shapes and had no luck there either....

**Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:00 pm