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Old 10-12-2012 | 03:52 PM
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Default RE: Flutter and air balancing

The Corsair was a design that included aero tabs on the elevator. It's interesting to note that not long into the design process they added robust boost tabs. They chose not to increase the area of the aero tabs, and incorporated the far more effective boost tabs.

BTW, the area of the Corsair's aero tab is about 12-13% of the area of the rudder aft of the hingeline. The planform of the rudder would have forced them to move the hingeline aft or increase the depth of the tab to get a larger percentage of area into the tab.

I wonder if there is an example of a full scale airplane that has a larger percentage of tab area than that percentaqe?