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Old 01-29-2003 | 04:03 AM
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ChrisSpad
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Default Sharp LE (is it a myth?)

I hate to even post about this. Cajun has been proclaiming for years that the sharp leading edge causes a plane to hunt in pitch. I've built well over a hundred of these things, and 90% of them had sharp leading edges, and out of those, i've only had a couple that actually hunted in pitch. I cured both of them by increasing the area of the hor. stab back up to 18% of the wing area.

Have any of you aerodynamic guru's ever personally experienced a plane with a sharp leading edge hunting in pitch, and curing it by changing to a rounded leading edge?