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Old 01-22-2013 | 04:13 PM
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Default RE: STAB INCIDENCE

You'll be fine. But I'm not sure if you got one of Bruce's points. The AOA depends on how you measure it. Your documentation shows that the plane had a "high lift" airfoil. So when it says the wing incidence was 1 degree, what exactly does that mean? In relation to some line drawn through the airfoil? Or the zero lift line? The stab certainly does not have a high lift section. How is it's AOA measured? It may be that in actual effects in flight the wing and stab are really 0-0, or maybe the stab is slightly negative.

Nevertheless, as others have said, you'll be fine because you will be quite close no matter what you do, and then you will trim it out.

I think it's always best to use the angle of incidence for the wing that the full scale plane uses because then it will look right sitting on the ground. But these are good questions that a lot of scale builders don't often give a lot of thought to.

Great project! I saw the original in the London Science Museum.

Jim