RCU Forums - View Single Post - Horizontel stab dihedral
View Single Post
Old 08-23-2010 | 10:37 AM
  #6  
alasdair's Avatar
alasdair
 
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 755
Received 15 Likes on 12 Posts
From: Scotland, UNITED KINGDOM
Default RE: Horizontel stab dihedral

On some airliners, like Boeing 757, 767 etc having dihedral on the tail avoids scraping the tips when landing in extreme crosswind conditions with a wing down and the nose up.
It might still be possible to scrape a tailplane tip, but only just