Originally Posted by PJ2
no indications that static ports were involved. My sense of it is that the altimeters were functioning normally and I think the assumption is a reasonable one.
Agreed, except that when IAS dropped below 60, then 30 kts, I think that was due to changes in the fuselage pressure distribution near the static ports (over-reading static pressure) due to high AoA, as much as or even more than due to the pitots under-reading total pressure. For what it's worth, CAS never drops below 140 kt in my simulation. That 140 kt is quite capable of pointing the AoA vanes in the right direction.
...after all, the Wrights learned from observing birds did they not?... ;-)
And don't forget Otto Lilienthal (recently celebrated on another PPRuNe thread), and who still knows the Minimoa?