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Old 04-16-2002 | 05:15 PM
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uptight26
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Default Bearcat airfoil?

Yes, but you'd need to get into the fluid dynamics of that airfoil, the renolds numbers and the down side of scaling them.

The bottom line is that low speed aerodynamics are different. The full-scale aircraft was designed to product the desired lift, drag, and weight at a certain speed, temperature and altitude, none of which an RC plane is going to match. Generally speaking the real airfoil, on the scale planform, won't perform well in the RC arena.
I've been out of the fluid mechanics game for a while so don't dump on me if this wasn't technical enough for any readers.