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Old 01-03-2004 | 12:08 PM
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Default RE: *Who can answer this ONE?*

The flat bottom wing will not provide much lift in an upward direction in inverted flight. It will fly inverted for a while, but it want to keep slowing down as you feed in down elevator to hold it up, with the eventual stall from loss of airspeed.

That's the nature of the old Clark "Y" airfoil. They are great for trainers and thermal gliders, but not too good for aerobatics.