To: conservatism_IS_compassion; EveningStar
Ironically, their approach to the problem of flight was quite limited, and advances by Glenn Curtis and others quickly transcended all of the Wrights’ technology. To such an extent that nothing unique to the Wrights’ design remains in use. Well NASA has been experimenting with wing warping on a modified F-18. Perhaps their ideas were too far ahead of their time to be practical.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-061-DFRC.html#.VJINWIdCoiU
43 posted on
12/17/2014 3:17:57 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative
Well NASA has been experimenting with wing warping on a modified F-18. Perhaps their ideas were too far ahead of their time to be practical. IMHO anything that won’t work without an additional century of technology to even make it experimental is just, in practical terms, a dead end idea at the time it was conceived.
44 posted on
12/17/2014 5:34:16 PM PST by
conservatism_IS_compassion
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