This will prevent the model from rolling too far. The public affairs office it beginning to plan for a day when the press can come see the Wright Flyer. Look for it on you local news in early March. We wanted to see if we could get some video tape of the laboratory and the automatic calibration machine. One of the students was interested in video on the Internet and this was her chance.
Most people say that the balance works like the bathroom scales.
It's a little bit more complicated than that. Scott Lijon showed us some of the strain gages that will be used for the Wright Flyer Test. These looked like little metal tubes with tiny multi-colored metal wires coming out of them. Phil Luan explained to us that one of the gages measures normal forces, and another measures axial force. These will be translated into lift and drag of the airplane.