re: Wilkinson's pterosaur wings (short)

[david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>]

M. Habib wrote:

"Matt told me at SVP that he wasn't particularly attached to the 
broad-chord model, but merely that he used it because it seemed more accepted 
when he was running his model, which seems fair enough to me."

I would be a bigger fan of this broad-chord model if there was only a smidgen 
of evidence for it. Right now, according to Matt, it's simply politically 
correct, popular and "more accepted" -- like launching off a cliff, I suppose.

In all the history of hypothetical papers on pterosaur flight, no one has yet 
tested how the Zittel wing would perform. Or have they?

David Peters
St. Louis