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Old 09-01-2007 | 07:55 PM
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da Rock
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Default RE: Incidence setting ?

When do you figure that trimmable tail will be flying. Am interested in hearing your results.

In the meantime think about what was said above.

If your trimmable tail does bring the fuselage up to fly level, what do you think is going to happen to the wings that are rigidly attached to that fuselage? Let's say those ClarkY wings were at 2degrees AOA to carry the load. The load isn't changing. But now an outside force is going to bring the fuselage level and that's going to crank the nose of those wings down however much the fuselage was dragging along at. And if say for example the fuselage was hanging 5 degrees down, those wings are now going to be pitched 5 degrees negative. That's around the zero lift angle for a ClarkY. What's going to carry the load now?