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Old 05-06-2014 | 01:47 PM
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Default Modifying airfoil

Quick question for all you aerodynamic gurus. If you had a fully symmetrical, constant chord wing, like on a Rearwin Speedster that I'm building, and you increased the thickness of the wing by adding cap strips and sanding them down to nothing at the LE, and TE, what would be the change if any to the flying qualities? Wow, that was a long winded question. Do you follow? So basically, the thickness increased by 3/16 everywhere but the LE and TE. Will it even affect it at all? Sorry if it's a dumb question.