Planetary entry needs paperwork

Many of the readers of Truth Today may think that nowadays computers solve every problem possible. But there are difficult problems in aerospace industry and rocket design that still need considerable amount of paperwork before the models can be transferred to the production line.

We interviewed the main engineer mr. Leonardo Wright and he showed us the workflow of his usual day. He had a mountain of paper on backyard of his offive and he was folding a series of paper aeroplanes to be thrown out of the window to that mountain there -consisting of earlier folded paperplanes.

"We have simulated the planetary entry to this plane by throwing these planes out of the window. The wind conditions are important to these experiments. And heat, putting a flame on the paperplane makes it simulate the friction of atmosphere ..."

We had to stop the interview when fire brigade bursted into that office and took mr Wright "gently" away from this room...

To be continued

Leif Zimmerman, reporter, Truth Today