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Old 03-03-2002 | 11:59 PM
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Daedalius
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Default Spitfire Tip Stall Problem

It flys like its on rails, once it's in the air. The field conditions here are really rough, (between a cotton field and an interstate, unfinished surface) and it's hard to get up much ground speed with out the plane bouncing out of control.

What I was thinking of doing was adding some inconspicuos stall strips to the leading edge of the inboard wing sections. This would force the stall here instead of at the tips, but I am not sure whether the wash coming off the prop would effect the flow over the stall strips or if they're even effective at these low reynold's numbers.