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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 09 Mar 2025 21:56:33 -0400
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:

> On 3/9/25 3:07 AM, rbowman wrote:

  [ snip ]

>> It uses wing warping rather than ailerons. I asked him how he learned to
>> fly it and he said you keep taxing a little faster and getting a few feet
>> higher off the ground until you decide to go for it.

> Wing-warping decidedly WORKS. The downside is that it only works at very LOW
> speeds. Beyond that the necessary flexibility works against you - flapping/
> oscillation sets in. Seeing this, Curtiss came to the idea of the aileron.

The original Tom Swift books date to before Curtiss, so that Tom Swift's
airplane (or was it still aeroplane?) used wing warping.

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