(Barnaby, Lynne, Katie, Julie and Mandy)
Page Last Updated 6/14/2008
The Wainfans are engineers, researchers, authors and inventors of innovative airplanes
and beverage heating cubes. To find out more about our
projects, our services, and us, read on!
Katie (or Kathryn as she is known in some circles) is spending part of the summer in London as an intern in the House of Commons of the British Parliament. Click on the picture of her in front of Westminster Palace with her spiffy Parliamentary Pass to read her London blog.
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Mandy and Julie are now both published aviation photographers. Click HERE and HERE (see page 54) to see their work.
On a non-aviation note, Barnaby and partner Steve Desmond are pleased to announce the release of a CD entitled " Love, Death, and the Laws of Physics" featuring songs with lyrics by Barnaby and music by Steve. Hear excerpts and order your copy at the Love, Death, and the Laws of Physics Web Page.
EXO-Wing:
(New 5/14/2008)
Barnaby designed this "EXO-Wing" human flight rig for Atair Aerospace. The EXO Wing in this picture is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is part of the "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" exhibit (5/7/2008 through 9/1/2008) produced by the museums Costume Institute. Click here for an Atair press release about the exhibit and the EXO-Wing.
Facetmobile and FMX-5 Lifting Body Airplanes
FMX-5 Ultra High Altitude UAV:
(New 11/6/2007)
While progress on the restoration of the original Facetmobile, N117WD, has been extremely slow, other exciting things have been happening in the Facetmobile World. For the past few years, an unmanned FMX-5 has been under development to return payloads from balloons flying at extremely high (over 98,000 feet) altitudes. These FMX-5 based vehicles have been flying since mid 2005. We have just now been given permission by our customer to reveal a little about this program. Click on the picture to learn more about it.
Racecar Aerodynamics
Barnaby is now doing aerodynamic consulting for race cars. He is working with the Robertson Racing team on their Doran-Ford GT running in the ALMS GT2 class. Click on the picture of the car to go to the Robertson Racing site.
Speed TV Interviewed Barnaby and his friend Ron Mathis at the Long Beach ALMS race. Ron is an accomplished racecar engineer. He is currently working as a race engineer for Audi on the Audi R10 P1 car, and also did much of the chassis engineering on the GT2 Ford GT shown above. To see more of what Ron does see his website: Angerole.com
Slides from Barnaby's Oshkosh Airventure 2007 "Fundamentals of Wing Design" Forum
Click on the lecturing man below to download the slides (pdf)
Popular Science Reports on the Facetmobile Project
Read about Barnaby's adventure on Junkyard Wars
The first product of Barnaby's collaboration with Kolb Aircraft is the new crew enclosure he designed for the Mark III Extra. Click on the picture to learn more
Love, Death, and the Laws of Physics CD: Songs by Steve Desmond and Barnaby Wainfan
NASA PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) Facetmobile Project
