Skip Healy periodically sends out an e-mail message with flute tips. The most recent one has some interesting information about flute bores, air compression and related topics. It also tells how he came to use the boehm schema instead of the traditional on his fifes and piccolos. If you’re interested in the physics of flute playing and making, check it out:
http://www.skiphealy.com/frames/fr_tips.htm
Backtrack and check out some of the archives. You might decide to subscribe to the list (it’s free).
Disclaimer: I have no commercial connection to Skip Healy. Unless you count the money I’ve given him.
I’m going to cross-post this on the whistle board.