Article 24339 of rec.kites: Path: tug!ibmpcug!laura.pcug.co.uk!rail.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!geog25.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: jburka@Glue.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka) Newsgroups: rec.kites Subject: Re: Single Skin Chevron Date: 21 Apr 1996 12:13:47 -0400 Organization: Project Glue, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4ldmrr$gn@geog25.umd.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: geog25.umd.edu In article , Andrew Beattie wrote: >Structural integrity. It tends to form ribs across the kite (the bulges go at >90 degrees to the normal direction. Maybe if the ribs bere closer (or it >had more bridles), it would bulge the other way. Y'know, Andrew, I bet you could get rid of those bulges by quading the kite... ;-) Jeff -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | Pithy, insightful quote to be inserted when one | |jburka@glue.umd.edu | occurs to me. *If* one occurs to me. | |http://www.wam.umd.edu/~jeffy/html/home.html |