Some thoughts on nature and sailplane design

Authors

  • Francisco Galvao The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Structures, Design

Abstract

Once again glider performance appears to be approaching a new technical frontier, as suggested by the present trend to ever increasing wingspan....  OSTIV should encourage and promote, in addition to technical and meteorological papers, any biological research related to gliding activities...

Author Biography

Francisco Galvao, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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2017-12-19

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