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Default RE: Some questions on designing my own pattern plane

Well, I do know about the canalizer. The propeller blows the air around the fuselage in a clockwise motion (known as the spiraling slipstream). The canalizer helps straighten out some of this rotating turbulent air, thus allowing the tail to become more effective.