|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Quote:
Quote:
If you want to work on some scaling numbers... Span (overall) 46.04 ft. (14033 mm) Length (overall) 47.27 ft. (14408 mm) Height (overall) 13.05 ft. (3980 mm) Forward Wing: Span (excluding tip fairings) 11.01 ft. (3356 mm) Root Chord (FWS 0) 2.58 ft. (786 mm) Tip Chord (FWS 1647) 1.80 ft. (550 mm) Dihedral -5° Main Wing: Inboard Wing Root Chord (WS 0) 5.99 ft. (1826 mm) Inboard Wing Tip Chord (WS 1825) 5.03 ft. (1533 mm) Outboard Wing Root Chord (WS 1825) 4.34 ft. (1322 mm) Outboard Wing Tip Chord (WS 6925) 2.03 ft. (618 mm) Dihedral +2°00' Leading Edge Sweep Angle 1°11’24" Outboard Sweep Angle (15% chord line) 0° Horizontal Tail: Span (excluding tip fairings) 13.97 ft. (4259 mm) Root Chord (BL 0) 3.76 ft. (1145 mm) Tip Chord (BL 2100) 2.25 ft. (687 mm) Dihedral -5° Sweep Angle(25% chord line) +29.8° Vertical Tail: Span 7.70 ft. ( 2346 mm) Root Chord (FS 814) 8.22 ft. (2507 mm) Tip Chord (FS 3160) 5.01 ft. (1526 mm) Sweep Angle (25% chord line) 40° Areas: Wing (Total) 172.212 sq.ft (just for comparison, a full size Cessna 172 has 174 sq. ft, with a span of 36 feet) Forward Wing (Exposed) 13.99 sq.ft |
||
|
|||
|
||
|
Quote:
Probably won't thermal worth Oh, I didn't say it, because it goes without saying, but of course, the less relative wing area you have, the lighter you want to try to make the plane, which is another closely correlative factor to sink rate. |
|
|
||
|
|
|
(Must.... resist.... urge.... to ... think up... new..... project...... Must..... re......sist!)
|
|
|
|
|
|
You have lost all will power, you will design the perfect slope glide that can thermal like an Oily II, and can break all existing DS records!
Do not RESIST, let your Inner Designer Reign, Do Not Resist, you will be Absorbed! |
|
|
|
|
|
Luckily for me, Capt., DSing has NEVER really been of interest to me.
(I did write a Science Fiction story a long time ago about discovering an airfoil that had a negative sink rate. ANY forward movement at all generated lift. The hard part was getting the darned things down.) |
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, that might be slightly problematic. . .
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spoilers, duh!
|
|
|
|
|
|
lol.. back when I wrote that, I knew very little about airplanes except that airfoils developed lift, lifted more with increased speed, and had never HEARD of spoilers... I was probably all of 12 years old.
I honestly wondered back then if there WASN'T a "negative sink" airfoil. |
|
|
|
|
|
Curiously, my "solution" was almost a form of spoilers! They had pop-up fans on the wings, that popped up and blew toward the front, to slow the plane down to a stop!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday afternoon... Salmon croquettes on a bed of creamed peas and carrots, with parsley mashed potatoes, and a side garden salad. Hope she likes it!
|
|
|
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | |||||
Category | Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Whoops! | Sorry, error, please delete | MterBeest | Slope Soaring | 15840 | Jun 25, 2010 10:06 AM |
Mini-Review | Sorry please delete this dup | Crushalot | Coaxial Helicopters | 0 | Oct 21, 2009 12:31 AM |
Discussion | SORRY! Unintened thread - please delete! | VTOLicious | Coaxial Helicopters | 0 | Oct 05, 2009 04:18 PM |