percy i am known only in the hangliding circles because i let my pilot licence go because of the restrictions and in australia we have 20 million people the size of your country so why conform to useless forums and clicky circles of the rich trying to out law any success as we find over here when i can just go and jump of a hill some where and tell the mob to go jump ...i pioneered the variable anhedral that moyes gliders delt with to find out in real air time just how for ar we can push the bounds of stability in hangliders so any air craft building i did was 30 years ago such as the teeni modified and have built hangliders and now am trying to get laminar flow over flex wings which hasnt been done or proven can be done so only swimsuits and wind surffers are experimenting now but we have some thoughts on it such as the formular ..'epsilon +1 '.. and wall compliant chord fairness theories and also we need a sowing machine capable of sowing one thousanth of an inch so the boundry layer isnt up set never been done but an idea to think about plus yatchs are useing one piece sails and thats got to come also but i still like pop riveted home built air craft like the teeni so i wrote in so it will still be the hard core die hards which keep them alive ..i dont like jim bedes rip of when he never showed up with tye goods 30 years ago but i like his aircraft .the bd5 jet and a local built two of them just recently ..
Posted on Feb 18, 2008, 4:00 AM from IP address 202.46.138.88