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Old 04-27-2009 | 12:20 PM
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Default RE: Does a flat wing always need ailerons?


ORIGINAL: shd3920

And if it needs to be known, it is a flat-bottom wing
I believe that the airfoild shape is irrelevant.

When the tail makes the fuselage go crooked through the air, the advanced semi-wing of a wing with dihedral increases the angle of attack and the lift, inducing an axial roll.

When the tail makes the fuselage go crooked through the air, both semi-wings of a wing with no dihedral keep the same angle of attack and same lift. The fuselage blanks the air reaching the retarded semi-wing, diminishing its lift, inducing an axial roll, but weaker than the produced by ailerons. However, the deflected rudder in the tail is higher than the roll axis, inducing a roll in the opposite direction. Hence, for most of the models, the roll will happen in the direction of the stronger torque. As explained above, the height of the CG also plays here.

Install ailerons if the wing will be straight, I suggest.