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Old 06-02-2006 | 04:47 PM
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da Rock
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Default RE: Flight incidence question

BTW, with a symmetrical, very lightly loaded wing, like on the twist, the wing is going to fly at a VERY SHALLOW angle of attack. And since a wing is usually built into an airplane so that it's close to it's operating AOA with the fuselage at it's least drag orientation, you can bet that the wing in the Twist is going to be very close to the centerline of the fuselage.

And pattern planes are the same.

Now, if you've followed that..........

Most of our models don't have wings that produce a lot of pitching moment SO our elev/stab's don't need much AOA to keep the models pitched right. The Twist and other symmetrical winged models seldom have horizontal tails that differ in incidence. They don't need it.

Like Mike asked, what do you want to do? what's the problem?