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... I'll see if I can find a photo of the ones I made. Stealth Pilot- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Stealth, I know exactly what you're talking about. The clamps that held Wilbur Wright's test "air plane" and flat plate to the bicycle-wheel-thingy of the 1901 aerodynamic experiment are made that way (on a much smaller scale). For those of you that think airfoils are the subject of University wind tunnels, Reynolds Numbers, and other such ilk, you may find it interesting to know that good 'ole Wilbur Wright made his first aerodynamic studies by mounting them on a bike wheel attached horizontally to another bike. The apparatus's power source was only rated at one "Orville", but that was sufficient to determine that Smeaton's coefficient of air pressure was flawed. The follow-up tests were run in a wind tunnel made of pine boards. Harry From a sign currently posted in their bicycle shop: "Thousands of pages have been written on the so-called science of flying, but for the most part, the ideas set forth, like the designs for the machines, were mere speculations and probably ninety percent were false." Wilbur Wright -- Geoff The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate. |
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