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Old March 9th 06, 11:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting
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"Richard Isakson" wrote in
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Take a look at some of the papers on the site -

http://www.winggrid.ch/AIAA-2004-2120.pdf
http://www.winggrid.ch/AIAA-2004-2120.pdf

Since they aren't selling anything, and they are doing both real world
experiments and academic papers with plenty of data collection, I
wouldn't call them snake oil.


Snake oil is far too nice a term for what they're peddling. Did you
read the paper? In the first sentence they throw out a hundred years of
aerodynamics and replace it with their own. Why? Because the old stuff
doesn't give the answers they want.


This Doonesbury is appropriate:

http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/db/.../05/index.html

Brian
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