Stall Strips - please reply
 

How do you make stall strips (for firebird freedom because of wingtip stalls) out of balsa wood? Where do you put them? Thanks in advance.

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Not sure this would work on a Firebird but on a full scale they use a small strip (usually triangular to avoid a sharp edge) and run it along the leading edge root toward the tip. It must be carefully placed. When the wing reaches a predetermined AOA the strip breaks the laminar airflow near the root area leaving the tip area flowing smoothly. Thus the root stalls and the tip doesn't. Moving the strips up/down (vertically) on the leading edge adjust the stall points.

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very tricky to do on that light of foam wing.... you could try the " aerodynamics" forum

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Learn to fly at the plane's flying speed, don't get too slow.

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Thanks. I'll post something in the aerodynamics forum. I'm new to planes so all this is a bit confusing.

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I think you'll find that flying above the stall speed is the answer to your problem....stall strip or not get to slow and it's still gonna stall.

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Stall strips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_strips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(flight)
http://www.mindspring.com/~cramskill/tamstall.htm
http://selair.selkirk.bc.ca/aerodyna...ols/Page4.html

This should give you the idea of what they are.

Now how about Stall fences?
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/es...ngs/TH20G6.htm
http://www.djaerotech.com/dj_askjd/d...tipstalls.html

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Well, i know the plane will still stall at any low speed, but my Freedom tends to wingtip stall, which already ate one of my wings.

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If you can figure out a way to add some "washout" to the wing it may help.

http://www.rcfctoronto.ca/Washout.html

Use your old wing panel to experiment on.