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Old July 20th 08, 10:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Clearly Outside the Box

I agree that this is "out of the box" thinking. While in engineering
school they taught us how to brainstorm. Everyone must write down 10
ideas. When you are forced to come up with 10 ideas, you can quickly
run out sane ideas and the last 3-4 end can become pretty bizare. Its
those bizare ideas that are "out of the box". Unfortunately most
brainstorming is done real time in front of, to you at least, a more
knowledgable group people who often maintain the status quo and/or
only agree with incremental changes. Being presented with someone's
10 ideas, sometimes you say, "I never thought of it that way".

Anyway, my status quo thoughts are;

1) Interesting "winglets". I wonder if these are aeronautically sound
or were they used simply because they look good.
2) Someone needs to tell the designer that while side-by-side seating
might seem like the right thing to do (in airplanes and cars), tandem
seating produces the least cross section area to the ship and better
performance.