ORIGINAL: MegaByte-2
Well.....I liked the long post. Very informative and interesting.
Agreed that there are many factors other than thickness that have big time effects.
I was just curious if anyone noticed or tried 2 wings of different thickness's of materials.
Depending on the flight characteristic you want , thicker may be better. But if you had a decent flying plane with 2mm Depron, but wished it to be a little faster a 1.5mm wing should be faster.
If the wing is undercambered like the AA......faster = more lift. This may be a problem. I guess it all depends on what type of plane it is, how you want your plane to fly and the type of airfoil being used.
Jets on the other hand want to be fast....using an undercamber is against its fast forward flight, unless it weighs a ton and you need the extra lift.
Tony
ARS Software & Innovative Solutions
http://www.falcon1.net/~ars/rcmodels.html
You're right about the undercambered wing slowing the jet down. A straight
wing would be faster but you would loose lift in the process. Climbing would
have to be done in the wind as well as landing.
On this new jet I'm cutting, it weighs less, about 5 grams, so I'll try a flatter
wing.
It also weighs more with the N20's, with the AA RX and lipo, weighing out at
about 20 grams total. So that means I should increase the up elevator?
Wouldn't increasing the angle of the stabs also increase drag, slowing the jet
down?
I'm really cutting it close to the 1"- 1gm wing.