re crazy or just imaginitive on thu apr gmt nsmca aurora alaska edu said nsmca so some of my ideas are a bit odd off the wall and such but nsmca so was wilbur and orville wright and quite a few others this is a common misconception there was nothing off the wall about the wright brothers they were in correspondance with a number of other experimenters octave chanute lillienthal etc they flew models they had a wind tunnel in short they were quite mainstream and were not regarded as odd or eccentric by the community i suggest you read the bishop s boys or the biography by harry gates combs i can never remember which it is the guy that had the fbos and owned learjet for a while these are both in print and easily obtainable the bishop s boys is in trade paperback even even better would be the multi volume set of the wrights writings but this is out of print rare and hideously expensive mary shafer dod kotfr nasa dryden flight research facility edwards ca shafer rigel dfrf nasa gov of course i don t speak for nasa a mig at your six is better than no mig at all unknown us fighter pilot
