June 5th 08, 12:09 AM
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negative dihedral
"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in news  hF1k.1882$nD3.1558
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Well, years ago a hypersonic bipe was looked at, believe it or not,
but
even Beurt Rutan will tell you that none of his creations were
completely original. Not to detract from his talent, whihc is
monstrous,
but there's nothing on any of his airplanes that hadn't been done
before. Even that mad boomerang has precedants and quite a lot of
them
dating back to the first world war (Caproni). Getting it all arranged
right to make it go better than anything before it is his gift.
Having
said that, Spaceship one was pretty unique, but you'll probably find
that mad recovery system was done in boost glider in an old issue of
American Aircraft Modeler or similar. I never cease to be astounded
at
the massive number of airplanes constructed in th elast century and
the
variety. it hardly seems possible sometimes that there were enough
people to make them all!
Bertie
Absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thenkew.
Bertie
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