Kudos on the innovative hollow airfoil
Thanks!
In the last couple days, several other guys have built and flown this latest design, and the reports are coming in...the overwhelming observation is stability. The plane won't stall or fall off at all. When it reaches nose high stall speed, all it does is begin a slow harrier decent. One guy even said it was stable enough to use as a trainer, and on slow flight, had self righting charicteristics of a dihedral wing. There may be more going on with this airfoil than I understand. I've also been told that although respectable, the ailerons are not as fast as one would think on a wing span of this size. Is it possible that some kind of stabilizing airflow is being generated under or at the tips of this wing giving it the stability and resisting roll input? In my experience, a wing this size would normally roll 5 or 6 time a second with a normal airfoil...this design with the same aileron travel gives me about 2 rolls a second.