I attended a talk by Gerhard Waibel about 10 years ago (or maybe 15 years ago).
Among other things he talked about the wing fuselage intersection drag. His idea was to raise the wing on a thin pylon more than 200mm above the fuselage and then support the wing with struts! I thought that was really reinventing the wheel. But he was right. Here we go. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Mike Borgelt < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, as Bernard said there are other composite sailplanes with high wings. > Phoebus C, Std Jantar 2/3, ASW 15. > > However have another look at the Mu 31, the fuselage cross section in > particular where at around pilot shoulder height it necks in. This is more > like the Weihe, Meise (Olympia), Slingsby Sky, early Slingsby Skylarks etc. > > Mike > > > > > > > > the At 01:08 PM 12/27/2017, you wrote: > > Not just new wings (same sections though ) but extensive changes to > fuselage also so I think a new model number is warranted. Better for sales > anyway. Wouldn't surprise me if the EB29R is further modified and becomes > the EB30. Looking at the R wing at Benalla it didn't really fit the old > root fairings on the EB29. > > Funny thing is some of the wooden gliders of the 30s, 40s and 50s had > similar wing locations and mounting of the wings on a pylon integrated into > the fuselage. Didn't have the fancy wing root design as they didn't have > the CFD codes or computers then. > > Somewhere I have a paper on the Mu31 where they say they hope to get 6 to > 10% drag reduction with the wing location. We should know soon as it won't > be hard to find a good ASW27 and do comparison flights. > > Before anyone gets too excited this is all pure speculation on my part but > if the comparison tests show they are getting what they wanted........ > > Mike > > > > > At 12:43 PM 12/27/2017, you wrote: > > Content-Language: en-US > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="_000_PS1PR04MB1004D9231BF7DE336AFA7 > 056A2070PS1PR04MB1004apcp_" > > Hearing that this will be the glider that combats the V3 & JS3; new wings > for the very popular ASG29, the R is for Racing - perhaps a play on the > intimidating EB29R? > > > > > > "ROCKS" ? > Looks like Butch had a good time in the V2 aswell. > Jim > > > > > what does that mean?? > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > *Borgelt Instruments* - > *design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 * > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > *Borgelt Instruments* - > *design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 * > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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