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Re: Tails, Fins, Rudders

Postby JoeF » Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:28 pm

Eric Raymond
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Scott_Raymond

Jen Fin like vertical stabilizer

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Re: Tails, Fins, Rudders

Postby JoeF » Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:42 pm

Device is like Jen Fin
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Re: Tails, Fins, Rudders

Postby JoeF » Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:48 pm

Have some fins where one might say: like Jen Fin
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The fin at "45" is like the Jen Fin
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Re: Tails, Fins, Rudders

Postby JoeF » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:39 pm

First decade of 1900s shows a Jen Fin like part of the empennage
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Re: Tails, Fins, Rudders

Postby JoeF » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:14 pm

Hargrave
and a move toward Jen Fin arrangement

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... from interesting page: http://www.design-technology.org/hargraves.htm

and note that the Jen Fin forms an aft bifurcating scene; then sense the aft bifurcating scene of some of Hargrave's models:
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