ORIGINAL: golf4two
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=
At a distance of one inch from the origin, a line that rises at an angle of one degree from the origin will be 17/1000 of an inch high. Knowing that, it's easy to calculate the figures you need for any number of degrees and for any length of line (which, in your case, would be the width of your elevator, rudder, or aileron). If you don't like inches, this formula works in any other unit.