Thanks for the tip!

      Sea McKeon

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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Vulture photo request

Don't know what sort of article you're working up, but you might 
be interested in thevulture  story I first heard at the Visitor Center

at  Kitty  Hawk Nat'l Monument.   

As best I remember it, the Wright brothers were stalled temprarily
in their research.    They had achieved highly sophisitcated glider 
design and flights, but were stuck in figuring how to manage 
turns (yaw.)     Nothing seemed to work.  

 Wilbur decided one  afternoon to observe turkey vultures - - one 
 of nature's finest glider designs - - and had a "Eureka!" moment 
while noting how they used their primaries to effect such directional 
changes.   He morphed the primaries into ailerons (eventually, 
these things take time) and the TV became the inspiration for manned, 

controlled flight, from hang gliders to C-5A's.

Good luck in getting pictures.   It sounds like an inteesting
assignment.

Leo Weigant


>>>  3/17/2005 9:56:18 AM >>>
Hello List!

 

I'm currently working on an article for Hang Gliding and Paragliding
Magazine on the Vultures of North America, and coming up shy in the
photo department.  If anyone has good shots of TVs, Black Vultures, or
California Condors (preferably digital) I would greatly appreciate
them.
Full credit for any photos used will be given, and I'll make sure you
get a copy of the article.  Portrait, Behavior, and In-Flight photos
would be particularly useful.

 

I can be contacted at  

 

Cheers,

 

       Sea McKeon