Re: White Elephant (was Re: Naming 'the stick')

"William Mook" <william.mook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Lets not confuse oblique with swept wing now.

That admonition should be directed to Michael Mewhinny at NASA Ames.
He's the one who wrote the press release you cited, and which Pat quoted:

"Robert Thomas (R.T.) Jones, inventor of the swept-back wing, basic to
all of today's high-speed aircraft, died today at his Los Altos Hills
home. He was 89."

Even granting that the PAO made an honest mistake in mistaking "oblique"
for "swept-wing", Pat's http://www.luft46.com/bv/bvp202.html shows that
Jones' claim to fame isn't completely valid.
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