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Old 09-25-2004 | 10:08 PM
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Rotaryphile
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Default RE: Biplane wings

I set all my fully aerobatic bipe's wing incidence at 0-0, or sometimes about 1/2 degree negative on the upper wing, with zero on the lower wing. Wind tunnel tests conducted in the 1930s by NACA showed that induced drag was minimized by using about one degree or so more positive incidence in the upper wing, although the improvement was barely measureable.