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All-moving Tails

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...conventional surface with the same planform. It’s important to be aware that an improperly designed all-moving tail surface with the hinge line too far forward can have so much floating...

Wind Tunnel

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...planform, aspect ratio, and airfoil must be chosen so that the tail stalls at a higher airplane angle of attack than the wing. Although the design of a horizontal tail...

Orso dItalia

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...build, practical to maintain and flyable with no nasty habits will put the basic strutted high-wing planform on the short list. Whether it’s a tandem or side-by-side may be a...

Fifties Fuse, Teeny Wings

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...more easily analyzed. Iscold then looked at the planform of the wing and lift distribution during the race—in essence, how CLwould vary spanwise over the wing. Elliptical planforms are ideal...

The Spin Doctor

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...of the prop.” Back to the blanks: These maple cores are then rough oversize cut to planform shape on a large bandsaw, followed by another oversize cut on the backside...

HP-24

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...a glider to fly a particular profile. What is more important are the planform, convenience, and features like autoconnects—and these are covered well by the HP-24.” Christner has a particular...

Wind Tunnel

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...friend asked me to design a wing for a single-seat homebuilt he had under construction. I did so, specifying planform, twist, and recommending an airfoil which gave a good combination...

Quickie Adoption

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...filled a few years later by a startup called Viking Aircraft; they produced a scaled-up version of the Quickie planform called the Dragonfly. The Dragonfly won the Outstanding New Design...

Bearhawk LSA

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...the same wing (airfoil, planform, and size) as the Super Cub, and the design goals were similar to those of the Cub variants, as well as the Bearhawk LSA. In...

Viewfinder

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...or plans would be created.) In 1988, the Catbird managed to seem both familiar and futuristic. It’s a conventional planform airplane in many respects: engine in front, big wing in...

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