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 29 Jane Circuit TOORMINA NSW 2452 AUSTRALIA phone: 61 2 66584767 (H) 61 2 66869075 (W) mobile: 0403 049990 email: johnja...@optusnet.com.au web: www.members.optusnet.com.au/johnjanet/Martindale.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@knology.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html