ORIGINAL: can773
ORIGINAL: obi1
If you dont mind me asking,which plane did you try both thick and thin trailing edges on and what advantage did thick show in real life?
Thanks
I have done it on both a ZN Line Evolis XXL, and ZN Enigma... same results both times. Plane had a much better feel around neutral, basically felt more locked in than with the thinner TE's.
Yeah but 3/8" on a rudder? Man, that's THICK for a 2 meter.
Oh and because of this thread I just went and measured the TE's on my new plane....3/16" all the way around LOL And yes it does feel very locked around center, but the design is very clean also.
Let me try and explain this: Model aerodynamics is part science and part voodoo. Sometimes what looks great on paper is dog poo in application, there are simply too many variables. Hence why trial and error becomes so important. If it works, you stick with it. If it doesn't, you change it....and the "features" bleed off onto other designs, and so on and so on. And speed plays a factor here as well.
And this is why so many current designs look so much alike.....form follows function to a great degree. The longer the patterns and rules stay somewhat stable, the more the planes will be similar in the end...until we change the rules or patterns to an extent where something new is now advantageous, and the cycle repeats.
Blech....if it works, use it. If it doesn't, trash it. Thicker TEs work on the current designs.
-Mike