Changing the wing will also require a re-visit to the tail volume, as one of 
tail's jobs is to counter the cm/pitching moment of the wing....Which I'd 
guess the Coco bar wing would have more of.....Tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Scott" <jscott.pi...@juno.com>



There's a lot more to it than just mounting a constant cord wing.  The 
airfoil, cord, incidence, washout, and wing area are probably more important 
than constant cord vs taperwing vs eliptical wing planform.  The RV series 
aircraft use a constant cord wing and I certainly don't think of them as 
slow or handling like a truck.  The point is that the wing really needs to 
be designed for the aircraft.  For the KR series, a PhD candidate designed 
the new AS series airfoil specifically for this plane.  From everything I've 
seen, it works quite well.  Additionally, the old RAF series wing seems to 
work pretty good as well.  One could certainly design a constant cord 
(Hershey bar) wing for the plane and with a few iterations, probably make it 
work just as well as the current wing plans, but why?

Jeff Scott


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