--- "Golden, Kevin" <kevin.gol...@churchdwight.com> wrote:
> Seems I read somewhere recently that the lifting > fuselage is a bad thing. I > believe the article I was reading was about the > Hyperbipe. Yea you read that sorta right. Anything that creates lift creates induced drag. It's tough to say if it's a good thing to have a lifting body or not because as always, it depends on the application... Even nice fairings, like wheel pants and stuff create some lift (sometimes) and thus, drag, but for the most part the parasitic and induced drag from the fairing is less than the parasitic drag if you left them off... It's all relative :-) Matt ===== ------------------------------------------------- Matthew Elder Orangeburg, SC http://www.infinigral.com/melder My Airplane Project: http://kr1.infinigral.com
