On Jun 19, 2:45*pm, wrote:
In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

On Jun 19, 1:35?pm, wrote:
I guess that's reasonable. It is conceivable that typical Cessna willl
look the same in 2108 as it does in 2008.
How about 2508?

Like they do now.

Will the typical Cessna (or whatever dominant GA manufacturer make)
look roughly the same in 2508 as it does in 2008, using essentially
the same mechanical controls (wires, pulleys, bellcranks, etc.)

Aircraft will look like they do now until some huge new technology
gets invented such as anti-gravity or the impulse engines of Star
Trek, in which case they will probably look like Star Trek shuttle
craft.

Or jet engines.

The basic problems of small, propellor driven aircraft with aerodynamic
control surfaces were solved about 80 years ago and the physics is
immutable.

The physics of what?

There is physics, and there is propellor-driven aircraft.

If you mean physics-physics is immutable I agree (Newtonian physics).

If me mean that physics of propellor-driven aircraft is mostly
understood, I would have to agree (with some exception).

If you mean that propeller-driven aircraft is the only way to get a
contraption to move foward through the air using no more than basic
Newtonian physics, I disagree.

-Le Chaud Lapin-