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Old 09-28-2002 | 08:45 PM
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Originally posted by Bill M
Yes,

You are right about the book, I have not bought the book yet. Did not want to order it and have not been to the nearest shop that carries it.
All of the info that I have found is on the full scale Quickies, and the Dragonfly. All of it is very complex and way above my head. My thinking was that if I used an airfoil that stalled at a low speed...STOP! It's the angle of attack that's important on a tandem. An airfoil that "stalled at a low speed"??? would be stalled most of the time.. I could avoid ever having either wing stall in flight. Models can survive much more abuse in terms of bad piloting than a man-carrier can afford to. Don't spend too much time building an "unstallable" airplane that is difficult to fly, and not fun at all! That may seem like a strange idea, but from the flight testing that I have done with the 8035 it looked like it should work. The estimated weight of this plane would be about 4.5lbs. This would give a relatively light wing loading. I'm building some small free flight models for testing, so I'll see what works and what does not.

Thanks again for the info, Ollie

Bill

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