It would seem to me that you would want to have the wing parallel to the
thrust line.
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:11:36 +0200 (EET) Tapio Linkosalo
<tapio.linkosalo_at_helsinki.fi> writes:
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Timothy Chang wrote:
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> > It seems the common trend is often to leave the wing close to 0
> degrees.
> > 1 or 2 degrees at most, and then to have considerably more angle
> in the
> > tailplane. My F1D models like flying with around .45" of incidence
> in
> > the tailplane.
>
> What is the difference between putting the (positive) incidence to
> the
> wing, or (negative) to the tailplane? I assume that with the same
> decalage
> the model will attain the same wing incidence relatice to the flight
> path,
> so for a model with 0 in the wing and negative on tail, the flight
> attitude will be more "tail down", which translates into needing
> more
> downthrust on the prop, and hanging tail will mean slightly more
> vertical
> clearance between wing and tail, while the fuselage will produce
> more drag
> being mode inclined to the incoming flow? Is there something that I
> miss?
>
>
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LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
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