PS: In my previous post, I was just telling you what the engineer said, I am in
no way telling anyone to change wing planform or saying it is better than what
we have.
When changing things dramatically in a design like the KR2, one is stepping out
into new territory possibly. As these planes are
My Dallas EAA chapter had a NASA engineer talk to us at least 20 years ago. His
statement was if your airplane design was such that you could not go well over
200 mph that a tapered wing would not help you as far as speed. He said the
most drag in piston driven aircraft was in the engine cooling
There's an article that appears to cover all angles of the rectangular wing
at
http://www.flyingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=12&article_id=170 . Make
sure you read all three pages. I put "rectangular wing" into Google and
this was the one on top...probably for good reason. Peter Garrison w
Sid,
What formulas or table did you use for calculating the change in flight
characteristics for a rectangular planform wing? The 20% figures you state
seem a little extreme. Also, I think the change would add only about 7 Sq ft
to the wing area.
Rich Hartwig
Waunakee WI
>about 20 percent t
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