Flying on the wing… A dying skill?
05-24-2004, 01:10 PM
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RE: Flying on the wing… A dying skill?
ORIGINAL: flycatch
It appears that most of the posts do not agree with the term "flying on the wing". I learned to fly on a high wing trainer. What made this trainer unique was that it employed a semi symeterical airfoil. If you examine the typical trainer now flown by the vast majorityof model it uses the standard Clark Y airfoil. The lift generated by the Clark Y at high angles of AOA far exceeds that of a semi symeterical type.
The average beginner, flying a model utilizing a Clark Y airfoil at slow airspeeds, normally is always flying on the wing. When the beginner switches to a non Clark Y airfoil and attempts to fly this model in the same style as that of his previous aircraft problems begin to surface.
To overcome these problems the beginner must relearn how to fly this new airfoil selection.
So, flying on the wing is not a dying skill but one that is constanly being relearned.
It appears that most of the posts do not agree with the term "flying on the wing". I learned to fly on a high wing trainer. What made this trainer unique was that it employed a semi symeterical airfoil. If you examine the typical trainer now flown by the vast majorityof model it uses the standard Clark Y airfoil. The lift generated by the Clark Y at high angles of AOA far exceeds that of a semi symeterical type.
The average beginner, flying a model utilizing a Clark Y airfoil at slow airspeeds, normally is always flying on the wing. When the beginner switches to a non Clark Y airfoil and attempts to fly this model in the same style as that of his previous aircraft problems begin to surface.
To overcome these problems the beginner must relearn how to fly this new airfoil selection.
So, flying on the wing is not a dying skill but one that is constanly being relearned.
