RE: Collecting material for a FAQ
Another thought.
How about some of you volunteer to research and assemble or type up some articles for this FAQ? It may be as easy as going back into past threads and bringing the material all together in one place. Or maybe a bit of that plus some Google time. It's just that there's enough topics that I can't do it all myself. Many hands makes for easy tasks.
A partial list of topics...
[ul][*] Tail Volume Coefficients for both horizontal and vertical sizeing and relating this to CG placement. We need the equations and links to some sites that may have calculators or other explanations available to go with out own homegrown model related version.[*] A simple newbie level discussion on basic model layout sizing and how different aspects relate to each other[*] A nice newbie article on airfoils. How they work, how the aspects are measured re camber and thickness, basics of lift coefficients and Reynolds numbers.... stuff like that.[*] A more advanced article on airfoils getting into the curves and how to relate them to actual model flying. High lift and anti stall devices would fall under this as well.
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I'll add to this once I get some time to go back and see what the more common topics have been over the past year.