Shows I must catch up with some blog rea

Shows I must catch up with some blog reading…

James Gosling (Father of Java) was at the Reno air races where they had that fatal crash last week, and he was actually sitting only 40 feet away from the impact.

There’s some interesting entries in his blog about it & from my little knowledge of aerodynamics it does look like a total control surface failure…

Part 1: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/i_m_alive
Part 2: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/some_more_detail
Part 3: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/some_theorizing

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