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Old 06-19-2008 | 02:31 PM
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Default RE: Do wrinkles in wing covering affect flight performance?

someone pleas reply to this.


If I have a wing which is not perfect and has patches of wrinkles here and there, will the amount of lift produced be afected? Will there be an efect on performance other than a need on trimming the control surfaces? I know that there will be more drag, but will anything else flight-important be affected such as the amount of lift? My plane is wingspan 1.4 meters and length 1 meter. Will this plane fly having a comsiderable amount of wrinkles on the wings? My plane's weight is 2 kg, powered by a .46 O.S. engine.

Thank you, I really need an answer,

Yishht.[8D]