No personal knowledge, but...
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http://66.102.193.156/papers/1953.zip (you might need to be an SETP member to access that page), is a paper on HQ assessment of a replica flyer circa 2003.
- Also there was some discussion on the subject during the 2003 SETP Oral history sessions in LA, if you have access to a set of the DVDs for that. (If you don't, they're worth the money.)
- A couple of years ago I went to a lecture on "handling qualities through the ages" by Roger "Dodge" Bailey, who is CTP at the Cranfield College of Aeronautics. One of the things he'd covered was simulation of the flight mechanics of the Wright Flyer by Cranfield. If you get in touch with him via
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/aboutus/contact.htm he's usually pretty helpful, and has a real passion and knowledge about the HQ of early flying machines.
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