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Old 01-19-2007 | 10:13 PM
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Default RE: Reversible airfoil??

IF you can rig up some form of switchable verticals and go for an all flying tail and IF you can rig up the fin swap with some form of traveling weight or wing to radically alter the CG then you could do an inflight conversion from conventional to canard. And wonder of wonders the UP elevator would work the same way both forward as well as backwards. Ailerons would need some fiddling to figure out or if you don't mind using rudder control only that would be best.

I think it's actually doable but would require a LOT of engineering and gimmickry to keep it light enough and yet strong enough. But the looks of the faces in the peanut gallery would be worth TWICE the efforts....