Re: "manual closed loop control" is there such a thing?



On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:06:58 -0500, John Popelish <jpopelish@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>(snip)
>> The Wright brothers airplane was dynamically unstable, as are some
>> modern fighter planes. They used experience, we use computers.
>
>It must have been quite a thrill building that experience a few feet
>above the sand.

They started with gliders, tethered in the wind at Kitty Hawk. I bet
they crashed a lot.

There was a TV show on a while back. Some people built a Wright
replica and learned to fly it. It didn't look easy.

John

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