[RCSE] Incidence angles

2004-02-16 Thread Chuck Anderson
At 11:47 AM 2/16/2004 -0600, George Voss wrote: I got my info off of CompuFoil. It shows the zero lift angle of attack at 2.42 (I goofed on 2.46 but most of us don't have the equipment accurate enough to measure in the 100ths.) If you set it at zero it'll dive into the ground. gv That should

[RCSE] Incidence angles

1999-08-07 Thread Chuck Anderson
For the younger generation brought up on fomies and composite lawn darts, never built a "real model airplane", and doesn't understand incidence angles, I highly recommend an article by Jim Alaback on Page 38 of the September issue of Flying Models. Larry's article alone is worth the cover price