RE: Trying to understand incidence
Thanks for the lower case RAPPTOR. I did a lookup on your name and did see that you have a lot of experience in model Jets. You probably have had experience with the all flying tail. That is an example of a case where incidence is basically not defined until you are in level flight. If someone would come up with a very cheap, simple, ball bearing all flying tail assembly that would fit in a model it would be useful in a host of airplanes. A person would need to be close to some estimate for the first flight but there after it would be what ever the model needed.
We would be able to buy them now except that a conventional horizontal tail only needs a few hinges to make it work and the servo loads are very light by comparison.
One of the highlights of my last year was seeing Terry Nitch's F-100 at the Scale Masters. It was an example of the all flying tail use in modeling at it's best. Made me realize how feeble my efforts were!
Merry Christmas.