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Old 05-24-2004 | 02:00 PM
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Default RE: basic aerodynamics

Nicely said -
OK, in self defense:
I have spent much time , professionally, unravelling technical gibberish proposed by "experts" in personal injury litigation.
Your thoughts are understandable -and clearly put forth.
Thank you.
I proposed very simple "rules" I have learned for models , simply because I saw mostly answers to questions - which really failed to address the point or, more pointedly - many times, the technical answers failed to address the real problems the modeler was experiencing.
So - I put for some of my own experiences -
and pointedly - the business of CG .
My feeling was and still is that as WINGLOADING diminishes to ZERO- the CG usable range increases and in some cases tho not all, dramatically.
This is why I said "if the plane weighs nothing - then the cg does not matter."
Silly?
All my own tests show that as wingloading increases - CG becomes MORE critical - and the reverse for decreased loadings.
Is this not true?
If true - what are the limits on low loading.- so far I have not found them.

Why because tho they are not stable gliders - they are still, easily controlled craft .
The F16 sure as hell isn't a stable glider.