Dear me ..... new things to go research and learn a bit about ....... and, following on from Genghis' comments, a recent AeroSoc article on gust responses in very flexible wings makes for interesting reading for those who might like to dig it out .....
Actually, Dick .....
(a) some would say that we engineers have limited intelligence ... artificial or otherwise ..... wives, in particular or so I have been told, are quite adept at such musings ......
(b) in another life as a ground instructor I used to get all bitter and twisted at the tendency of some to teach only that which was directly relevant to the exams ... and the exams, oftentimes, were of little relevance to anything ....... at times I thought I was but a lone voice in the wilderness preaching the need to learn things as well as pass the exam .....