Question for you aerodynamic geniuses out there:
I'm a seat-o'-the-pants genius... :o)
The real question I have is the wing I want to use has
built in dihedral starting about 1/3 of the way out -
will this dihedral cause handling problems, or is the
airfoil more critical?
Stiffness of the
A dude named Harris Nelson can be contacted through
http://www.northcountyflyingmachines.com
He made a ship called the Elf that was a pitcheron polyhedral. Take a
look at
http://www.northcountyflyingmachines.com/history.htm
down at the bottom for his composite ships. I'm developing an
I have flown a few different pitcheron planes, and also
crashed almost as many, so I am somewhat qualified to
ramble on this subject.
Most of the successful pitcheron airplanes use airfoils
with very low pitching moment. What this means is that
they tend to be more on the semisymetrical side
I believe you'll have at least two significant problems.
1. Wingerons/pitcherons need a foil with a wide drag bucket. I doubt the
Hobie foil does. I once had a wingeron with the 7037 foil. It worked if the
plane was flown by a little old lady. But if you tried to have some fun with
moderate or
What problems would I face if I converted a
rudder/elevator ship to a rudder/elevator/wingeron
ship - with a wing that has dihedral?
My Mosquito Hawk fits your description. (that is why it was named)
It has curved dihedral in the tips and a bit of dihedral in the center
panels.
It works well,
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