Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Wright Flyer

2002-04-09 Thread Michael Selig
At 4/9/02, you wrote: >On Wednesday 10 April 2002 10:02 pm, you wrote: > > "Microsoft To Join The Centennial Of Flight Celebration As Part Of > > EAA's Countdown To Kitty Hawk Presented By Ford Motor Company" > > http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.com/news/microsoft.html > > > > Go read it for the f

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Wright Flyer

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Deppe
Last year I did an in-flight simulation of the Wright Flyer in our Variable-Stability Lear 24 for the USAF Test Pilot School. It was part of the AIAA Wright Flyer Project - I wonder how this is this related to the EAA project? See: http://www.wrightflyer.org/Future/have_wright.html The linear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Wright Flyer

2002-04-09 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 10:02 pm, you wrote: > "Microsoft To Join The Centennial Of Flight Celebration As Part Of > EAA's Countdown To Kitty Hawk Presented By Ford Motor Company" > http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.com/news/microsoft.html > > Go read it for the full details, but it basically say

RE: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Wright Flyer

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Berndt
> I wonder if the EAA would be willing to share their research data with > the rest of us? Any EAA members here? IIRC it's not the EAA that's sponsoring the research. I think the model was tested extensively in the wind tunel at Langley. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/tunnels/ I am thin