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Audio interview questions for, Dr. Jani Pallis, Principal investigator of the 'Wright Again' project, Nov. 2002. (Three questions are answered by Dr. Rabi Mehta of NASA Ames Research Center, as noted.)

• What is Wright Again?
• What are you doing here at NASA Ames to recreate some of the efforts of the Wrights?
• Are these the actual pieces that the Wright Brothers made? Tell me a little bit more about these pieces -- where did they come from, what do they look like?
• What happens when you put the foils in the Ames wind tunnel?
• Don't you have the original data from the Wrights? Do you think your data will be much different? What do you anticipate?
• Why are we going through this educational exercise at this time in history?
• Since you are doing this at a small wind tunnel at NASA Ames, how can a large number of students get to understand this?
• How will these tests be conducted?
• Why did they have so many wing shapes?
• How long will testing take, and is it costly?
• What makes this project different from the many other projects? (Answered by Rabi Mehta of NASA Ames.)
• How does the project fit into the overall effort through out the country to mark the centennial the Wright Brothers'first powered flight? (Answered by Rabi Mehta of NASA Ames.)
• What is the schedule, and how do you handle the data for this Wright Again project?
• Why is NASA supporting the Wright Again project? (Answered by Rabi Mehta of NASA Ames.)

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