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On the Wing 3 contents:

111 Do birds have a "tail" to tell? 01/98
        An analysis of whether bird tails function as tails, or other control surfaces.

112 Aldo Toni's TFW-01 02/98
        Dr Aldo Toni's 3 metre F3J flying wing.

113 Michael St. John's Tarantula 03/98
        An unusually designed 100 inch slope soarer.

114 Aka-Bee's Horten-like 'wing 04/98
        Hidemi Akaba's 100 inch slope / thermal swept wing.

115 CO8 Part 1 - The airfoil (RS004a) 05/98
        RS004a Coordinates
116 CO8 Part 2 - The airframe 06/98
        Details of Hans-Jurgen Unverferth and Reinhard Sieleman's CO8.

117 Steve Morris' unstable plank 07/98
        Experiments in computer assisted stability.

118 Nearly a success story (1/2A Delta) 08/98
        Anyone for a fast electric Delta?

119 The AVRO CF-105 Arrow 09/98
        Canada's ill fated world beater.

120 Mike Carris' Swallow 10/98
        A beautiful 122 inch thermal swept wing.

121 DarkStar 11/98
        A tailless project from Lockheed.

122 The Horten H XIII 12/98
        A highly swept glider.

123 Pathfinder, Pathfinder-Plus, Centurion 01/99
        Solar powered high altitude planks.

124 Adding a "plank" center section to a swept 'wing 02/99
        A good idea?

125 Henry Hester's stealth sloper 03/99
        Who says it can't be done?

126 John Dvorak's CO8 04/99
        A high performance swept wing.

127 Walter Panknin's Flying Rainbow 05/99
        A large thermal swept wing.

128 Modifying and building the MB Raven, Part 1: Preliminary decisions 06/99
129 Modifying and building the MB Raven, Part 2: Constructing the wing 07/99
130 Modifying and building the MB Raven, Part 3: Constructing the fuselage and vertical stabilizer 08/99
131 Modifying and building the MB Raven, Part 4: Covering and flying 09/99
        Bill and Bunny tweak Dave Jones' classic thermal plank.

132 Glyn Fontenau and Dave Camp's CO8 2M 10/99
        Glyn and Dave make a model to mix with the Gentle Ladies.

133 Updates to #90, 97,122, and 132 11/99
        The Dorito update,  1/4 Scale Pioneer, Horton H-XIII, and CO8 2M wing fences.

134 Steve Savoie's X-4 Bantam - preliminary considerations 12/99
        A design process for the X-4 Bantam.

135 Swept Wings and Effective Dihedral: Part 1 01/00
136 Swept Wings and Effective Dihedral: Part 2 02/00
137 Swept Wings and Effective Dihedral: Part 3 03/00
138 Swept Wings and Effective Dihedral: Part 4 04/00
       Understanding how it all works.

139 Vern Hunt's Nemesis 06/00
        Vern moulds a beautiful swept wing.

140 Fonteneau & Camp's Vitesse 07/00
        Glyn and Dave take on the F3J models with 134 inch swept wings.

141 Boeing ATT SuperFrog for slope or electric 08/00
        Boeing's Concept tailless cargo plane.

142 Trimming for the slope 09/00
        General trimming theory and practice.

143 Blackbird 2M project, Part 1: Introduction 10/00
144 Blackbird 2M project, Part 2: The airfoil - BW 02 05 09 11/00
145 Blackbird 2M project, Part 3: Construction 02/01
146 Blackbird 2M project, Part 4: Covering and flying 06/01
        Bill and Bunny tweak Dave Jone's Blackbird 2M with a new airfoil and other refinements.

147 Wing fences 12/00
        Their application and theory.

148 Basic control systems for tailless planforms 01/01
        Types and their applications.

149 Using the Panknin formulae to choose a plank airfoil 03/01
        You want to use what?
        The CJ series airfoil coordinates.

150 Penumbra.5 04/01
        The fifth iteration of the Penumbra planform.

151 R-2 Project, Part 1: Initial considerations 07/01
152 R-2 Project, Part 2: Constructing the wing 09/01
153 R-2 Project, Part 3: Fuselage and fin and rudder 10/01
154 R-2 Project, Part 4: Covering and flying 04/02
        Dave Jone's parabolic winged plank.

155 The oblique wings of David Freund 05/01
        The flight of the fast banana.

156 The flying wings of Jochen Haas 08/01
        Computer aided design.
        Windows Software
        Mac Software

157 Larry Haig's Minibat 11/01
        The full sized glider.

158 John Digby's Sushi 12/01
        An Electric Plank from the QFI plan.

159 Noel Malone's Arrow 60 01/02
        A swept sloper from Australia.

160 Plank vs. swept planforms 02/02
        The Pro's and Con's of each considered.
 

EXTRA STUFF:

Estimating Altitude
       An underwing pattern to help estimate height

Building the House of Balsa 2x6
       A review by Alyssa V Wulick

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