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Old 03-17-2014, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by scale only 4 me

As Scale has so nicely pointed out here , yes it would be obvious that the tow in is the result of the leading edge being shorter than the trailing edge . But , this only explains the physical reason for why the SFG is toed in and does not explain WHY it's been positioned as such . As with all things of this complexity , those were engineered in that way for a certain , specific , aerodynamic reason .

And I'd like to know what that reason is

PS , I have done a bit of searching and have seen some small acrobatic foamies with the multiple SFGs / air brakes mentioned in post #6 by Ernie . They look kinda cool in a star wars ish kinda way