Gents, I have enjoyed the zero gravity discussion! I agree that a sailplane in zero gravity and still air will not glide for long. But what about dynamic soaring in zero gravity? As an aside, note that one can achieve very close to zero g flight within a gravitational field by flying an approximately parabolic flight path. This is done with large jet transports for astronaut training. As far as the airplane is concerned, this is very much the same as flying within a large satellite that is orbiting the earth, at least for a short period of time when the airplane is at the top of the parabola. The elevator has to be set to produce zero lift of course. That's all for now. Blaine Beron-Rawdon Envision Design San Pedro, California http://members.home.net/evdesign/ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
