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When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky. They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back...
...Vinci imagined a flying machine, but it took the methodical application of science by these two American bicycle mechanics to create it. The unmanned gliders spawned by their first efforts flew erratically and were at the mercy of any strong gust of wind. But with help from their wind tunnel, the brothers amassed more data on wing design than anyone before them, compiling tables of computations that are still valid today. And with guidance from this scientific study, they developed the powered 1903 Flyer, a skeletal flying machine of spruce, ash and muslin, with a wingspan...
...waning days before spring break are a time of intense griping for Harvard students. They complain, with reason, about the long, unvanquished winter, about mid-terms that block the light at the end of the tunnel, and about a break so short it's like sitting down to a meal only to get kicked out after the tapas...
...strongly question this tunnel vision that we can only have something if it directly affects students at Harvard," Sachs said...
Slobbery tennis balls flying overhead, tunnel-vision students march unwittingly through one of Harvard's hottest social scenes. It's not the Hasty Pudding Club; it's not the Fly Club. And though the literal brown-nosing the that goes on here may resemble a punch event, this crowd runs circles around any of Harvard's ornganized parties...