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Old 07-10-2012 | 06:24 AM
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Default RE: Modifying Stabilizer Incidence


ORIGINAL: eddieC

Isn't ''decalage'' usually defined as the difference between the <font color=''#000000''>angle</font> of attack of the wing and the stabilizer?
Close. Originally, was the difference in angles for biplane wings.<a href=''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalage''>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalage</a>
Decalage is a French word that means displacement of two temperatures or measurements; also absence of concordance between two things.

Hence, it can be used in both cases, where two angles diverge.

I would like to add to the above discussion that stabs fly within the downwash produced by the wing (not for canard layouts); therefore, they normally have negative AOA (producing negative lift that compensates for wing's pitch moment), even when the incidence angle is set as neutral.