ManBird 0 #1 October 30, 2003 My girlfriend bought me Léo Valentin's BirdMan for my birthday. My birthday is almost two months, but she couldn't wait to give it to me. Needless to say, I'm already halfway through it. There is far too much to comment on in this book right now, but here's a thought that stood out while reading it last night: It is very ironic that the original goal of putting on wings in freefall was to aid in stability and understand freefall aerodynamics when the issue now with using modern wings, at first, is instability."¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BirdWoman 0 #2 October 30, 2003 I've read that book myself and I was also intrigued by some of the stuff in it. As far as the irony, here is something to dwell on that with: back then they used wings to aid with stability when they didn't really know what stability was; now, we are worried about instability when we do how to fly stable..."I don't know where it is that I'm going, but wherever it is there I'll be!" --quoted by me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #3 October 30, 2003 Yeah, it's like they unintentionally made the problem ten times worse. But figuring out the bigger problem made the smaller one a piece of cake. Did you see the guy doing a perfect lawn dart position in freaking 1950?! Awesome stuff in that book."¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
