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ORIGINAL: WestCoastFlyer
Nice airplane Gray Beard! Good job.
Don't be so fast in critically analyzing non-glassing and subsequent displeasure of not having a perfect mirror finish, because you may be on to something!
Aerodynamic properties of laminar vs turbulant flow indicate less drag when a thin layer of air flows and clings to a surface with slight indentations, thereby reducing drag due to decreasing the wake of the airflow.
In other words, I made some of that up, but it will probably fly better than the same plane with a perfect finish!
Ibelieve that is the principle used when designing a golf ball..
Golf balls generate lift by spinning very fast. Gray Beard, to get the most out of your surface finish, fly it in very tight loops as fast as you can.
