Also affects nose attitude and thus visibility/approach speed during landing
as well. A reduced AOI means a higher nose at the stall
John Martindale
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]>
To: "KRnet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: KR> Wing incidence and washout
>I wrote:
>
>> Also, if you reduce the washout by 1 degree, you're probably
>> going to go nose up about a half a degree. Personally, if I changed
>> anything it'd be to LOWER the incidence by a half a degree at both root
> and
>> tip, because I find myself cruising at high altitudes in a nose up
> condition
>> during most of my cross country flying...
>
> I don't think I said what I was thinking. I should have said I'd INcrease
> the incidence at the root in order to reduce the nose-up tendency at high
> altitude. What you are proposing would actually improve this nose up
> tendency (although that's not why you're planning the change), but the
> stall
> characteristics will suffer. That was my point.
>
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
> email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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