Originally Posted by
flywilly
Fascinating discussion!
Alex, are we to assume that there is no disturbance in the airflow on the bottom of the fuselage/rudder? It might be interesting to check there as well. I will be very interested to see the results of the fin and fuselage fences, perhaps you could test them seperately. The placement of the fuselage fences is interesting; they seem to have a very significant positive incidence, do you anticipate trim changes?
I think in KE flight the airflow on the bottom of the fuselage will follow the same principle (leaking around the belly from the high pressure side to the low pressure side).
I'm working on the fin fences, hope to test them this weekend.
If you look at the horizontal flight images, you can see the airflow follows the approximate direction of the fuselage fences, so i hope they won't induce significant trim changes. The fuselage fences will only influence the airflow in KE position, hopefully in a good way
Originally Posted by
serious power
Hi Jim,
I think I see what you mean - if so sorry
bjr_93tz.
It's just that English would not be Alex's first language.
Having said that his is better than most
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Brian
That's ok Brian, i got the joke, thought it was quite funny
Originally Posted by
n233w
Yo Ho this is a great experiment, thank you! PLEASE post links to clips of the raw video somewhere, too, as would love to see it in live action.
Bill
I'll try to upload the videos on YouTube, but they are over 2Gb so it may take a lot of time.
Question: I was told the Brits had engines that rotated in the opposite direction. Was everything reversed on the Spitfire?
Jim O
The late versions of the Spitfire had RR Griffon engines, which rotated in opposite direction to the Merlin engines used on the early versions.