Their aircraft were control configured vehicles, not stability
configured. They expected pilots to *fly* like birds do. With the
majority of aircraft the aircraft is stability configured, leading to
aviation's dirty little secret - aircraft fly themselves mostly and
pilots don't do much.
Not until the F16 did large numbers of control configured aircraft
get built. Then the electronics was used to make the aircraft easily
controllable by human pilots. To the pilot it looks and feels like a
stable aircraft but it isn't. Means you can build a smaller
horizontal stabiliser with attendant savings in weight and drag
and/or get a larger C of G range.
Mike
At 12:40 PM 10/06/2014, you wrote:
is it correct they did not understand C of G issues and that was the
main cause of fatality?
At 10:30 PM 9/06/2014, you wrote:
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:52:15 +1000
From: Mike Borgelt <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Toulouse-Lautrec/ Henri Rousseau
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At 11:33 PM 9/06/2014, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>Further to my earlier email, here are two images
>for your consideration. The first might inspire
>you to have a look at higher definition images of T-L ?s work.
>Re the second image ? a painting by Rousseau who
>was a contemporary of T-L ? what is that
>strange contraption that is shown in the sky?
>
>Gary
>
A Wright Flyer. 1908 model. When the Wrights went
to France in 1908 they blew everybody away with their mastery and expertise.
Mike
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>>> they blew everybody away with their mastery and expertise.
And then they became a footnote to aviation history.
The Wrights certainly understood the need for banking and coordinated
turns which for some reason the French had not but the French cottoned
on very fast and left the Wrights in the dust, or rather in the
courts.
Interestingly, by 1910 or thereabouts, almost all aviation fatalities
were in Wright aircraft, including most of their exhibition team.
D
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:17:04 +1000
From: Mike Borgelt <[email protected]>
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yeah, a footnote that says they were FIRST.
Mike
firstAt 11:13 AM 10/06/2014, you wrote:
> >>> they blew everybody away with their mastery and expertise.
>
>And then they became a footnote to aviation history.
>
>The Wrights certainly understood the need for banking and coordinated
>turns which for some reason the French had not but the French cottoned
>on very fast and left the Wrights in the dust, or rather in the
>courts.
>
>Interestingly, by 1910 or thereabouts, almost all aviation fatalities
>were in Wright aircraft, including most of their exhibition team.
>
>D
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