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Re: My Space Web Site is up!
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Date: 
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 03:47:08 GMT
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<snip>
> 
> Not necesarily true about the wings being ripped off.  Look at the cover of
> this issue of Popular Science from November 2000:
> http://www.popsci.com/magazine/this_month/toc_nov2000.html
> 
> In the article they stated how one of the aircraft contractors filed a
> patent for it.  So apparently the aircraft companies are thinking seriously
> about it (I don't think it would be especially difficult, take an X-29, add
> the swinging wings from the F-14 and there you go).  Now leaving "Error
> Handling" mode...
> 
> By the way Elliot, if you made that model to be like the airplane on the
> front of PopSci then you did a really good job!  And the rest of your models
> are great too!
> 
> -Nick

My oh my, will technology never cease to amaze me!  I humbly stand
corrected!  If I had not seen to with my own eyes, I would have never
believed it.  And that thing will actually do that in mid-flight?  Wow!

:^)

In that case, EXCELLENT MODEL, ALL THE WAY AROUND!  Functional, realistic,
and damn sharp!

~Trev
Astro Lift Co.



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