On Dec 15, 9:29*pm, DaveS wrote:
On Dec 15, 11:23*am, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

Speaking of the 121, did you see how those composite wings flex on the
takeoff?

Someone at work called it an ornithopter.
Frank Reid

I had to look up that word, to re-member it. Yeah. Ornithopter. It
fits.
When I saw the tail on shot of the plane in the air with the two chase
planes I had this horrible instant of flashing on the problem they
were fixing last summer on the wing/body connection. Irrational but
real.

Haven't yet been able to find out how things worked out in the Moses
lake tests.

Dave

Just a belated update on the test flight. Weather, decending clouds in
the Straits of Juan de Fuca, and a T-38 scout plane report of very bad
weather and turbulance over the Cascades and into Moses Lake to the
East. Consequently they came in after 3+ hours. Test pilot said the
windshield wipers at least checked out well. ;+))

By the way this pilot had to ditch a rebuilt Stratocruser into the
Sound a few years ago. Someone forgot to re gas. Beautiful ditch
however.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...tflight16.html