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Old 03-05-2008 | 06:44 AM
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Default RE: All flying tailplane


ORIGINAL: quentinmayberry

Thanks for all your inputs guys, I will re design the pivot and make sure it is on the aerofoil centreline and 25% forward of the MAC

Good idea to put it on the centerline.

To help a bit with the terminology, you actually wish to place the pivot at a location that is at 25% of the MAC. Designers figure out where the MAC lines up relative to the centerline of the surface and then measure back 25% of the MAC's chord. That would be 25% back from the LE of the chord of where the MAC would be if it were projected to be at the center of the span.