Geodetic Wing - Follow Up

From: calgoddard <calgoddard_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:14:11 -0000

Our team tested the airplane it built with the geodetic wing that
resulted in unexpectedly high camber.

The plane flew very well with the geodetic wing.

Now our team needs to test the same plane with a similar non-geodetic
wing to see which is better.

Of course they need to maintain everything else the same - overall
weight, CG, prop, rubber, turns and torque. Many test flights will be
needed to see if they can discern a difference. They might use half
motors to speed up the testing.

Maybe at such low speeds the main wing camber is not that important,
i.e. it is outweighed by many other factors, so long as the camber is
in a reasonable (suitable) range.

As always, comments from the group are appreciated.
Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 11:14:15 CET