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LONGITUDINAL STABILITY OF FLEXIFOIL?
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Subject: LONGITUDINAL STABILITY OF FLEXIFOIL?
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From: gaffer@plx.com (Andrew Beattie)
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 20:29:23 -1000
>The story goes that the flexi's inventors were playing around with
>airfoils and flexible and rigid spars. They had problems with
>stability, but kept at it. One day, the kite turned "inside out" and
>flew like a dream...
One of the newer paperbacks (Kites by Lloyd and someone ?) has several pictures
of the early days before they came up with the flexifoil. It seems that they
were trying to make sculptures out of wind-inflated plastic bags and
polythene tube.
Andrew
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