New Home Page and Site Map for the Aeroexperiments website
Welcome to the latest incarnation of Steve Seibel's "Aeroexperiments" website. This page is currently under construction-- last updated July 1, 2014. One or more of the articles linked on this page was last updated on July 1, 2014. Stay tuned for more!
Index of pages on the new Aeroexperiments website:
Practical stuff:
Oregon weather webcams and current condition reports
Suggestions for teaching:
Confusing terms-- "coordinated", "uncoordinated", and "slipping"
Fixing some questions/answers on the USHPA written exams
Notes for new hang glider pilots (and their instructors):
Notes for new hang glider pilots-- on "slips", "sideslips", and "slipping turns"
Notes for new hang glider pilots-- on turn "coordination"-- shorter version
Notes for new hang glider pilots-- on turn "coordination"
Notes for nerds and geeks (i.e. hang glider pilots with a deeper interest in flight dynamics):
Overview of some key themes relating to the flight dynamics of hang gliders
Notes on sideslip in flex-wing hang gliders
Notes on pitch "coordination" in flex-wing hang gliders
When the airspeed is changing... some thoughts on the real meaning of pitch "coordination"
Notes on sail billow, dihedral, and anhedral in flex-wing hang gliders
Notes on theory--"effective dihedral" in flex-wing hang gliders
A hands-on exploration of "effective dihedral" in flex-wing hang gliders
Testing the relationship between VG setting and "effective dihedral"
Practical tips-- keeping the nose low-- putting negative "effective dihedral" to work for you on the ground
Practical tips-- using bank to balance the glider in roll-- putting the wind gradient to work for you on the ground
Practical tips-- putting "effective dihedral" to work in flight
Self-sustaining yaw-roll oscillations in flex-wing hang gliders-- neither classic "Dutch roll", nor "PIO"
Notes on some areas of continuing investigation
Notes on the history and future development of the Aeroexperiments website
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A note on site navigation-- many of the old internal links within this site developed a bug after the website was migrated to a new server. If an internal link isn't working for you, try adding the suffix ".shtml" to the end of the link.