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Old 09-22-2011 | 01:41 PM
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golf4two
 
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Default RE: Degrees into inches


ORIGINAL: raydar

You would need to use the length of each surface to calculate the throw in degree. I would go buy a protractor myself for a dollar at the stationery store.
It's pretty difficult to measure a two degree dihedral on a 60 inch wing with such a small device. Or even a one or two degree engine offset.....
And at the ripe old age of 70 and not an engineering type, I've forgotten all of that High School math.

Sure would be nice if someone would post a simple formula (substituting the numeric value for Pie, sin, etc.) or a spreadsheet formula that we could all use for various purposes. I for one would really appreciate something like that.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can do that,
=Rick=