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Old 10-07-2007 | 01:40 PM
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Default RE: Speedy Bee Tuck


ORIGINAL: Tall Paul

CP can be used for pitching computations.. up to the point where it forces the location of the force -off- the wing. Then of course it can't affect the wing,
CP of the wing used in pitch computations can certainly move the neutral point of the airplane "off the wing", but it doesn't push any forces around. It's a force that moves with different AOA. And for a model that is only gaining speed, not weight, the AOA will flatten very slightly during an acceleration when the airplane is already at speed.

The Cm of a wing is quite another thing than the Cm of the airplane. And it's the airplane that suddenly pitches.

I guess I don't understand what you mean about a CP being able to "force the location of the force off the wing"? What force? Pitch stability is a balance between the lift force and vector of the wing versus the lift force and vector of the tail (if we ignore the contribution of everything else).

So I guess I'm not following your argument.
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