I'd like to collect links or material for a good Aerodynamics FAQ sticky thread. Particular areas I'd like to get stuff for are....

[ul][*] Tail Volume Coefficients and stability calculations for CG placement for various planforms[*] Airfoil drawing and analysis and low Reynolds number information that pertains to our world.[*] Stuff on wing analysis like MAC calculators and lift coefficient tools.[*] Links to sites that host similar material or tools.[*] Anything else that I've missed in this short list....
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To start the ball rolling ...

1) [link=http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/FoilSim/index.html]Foilsim airfoil applet download[/link]...

This is a very handy tool that can be used to determine to a close approximation the lift coefficient of a model and roughly what the stall speed will be and the effect of airfoil camber on the angle of attack and stall speed. It's a wonderfullly simple tool that has many uses when you see how it fits into the various aspects of flight. Highly recomended and great fun to play with. It reallly gives a good feel for how a wing behaves in flight and is a great aid to understanding how to read the lift drag curves that come with airfoils.

2) A page of links to [link=http://www.b2streamlines.com/winglinks.html]Flying Wing Information[/link]

In particular the Panknin wing twist [link=http://www.b2streamlines.com/Panknin.html]Excel spreadsheet calculator[/link]

And if you do not have Excel then here's a link to the free Open Office package that can open much of the Office 2000 material and should work with the Panknin package.... www.openoffice.org .

More when I get time..... Hopefully you folks will offer up enough that I don't need to do more than fill in a few more nooks and cranny's...

BRING'EM ON ! ! !