Timeline for How do you maximize lift while keeping span as short as possible?
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| Mar 17, 2022 at 0:24 | comment | added | Pilothead | @Zeus Good info on the tail. | |
| Mar 17, 2022 at 0:17 | comment | added | Zeus | The flaps at the "center part of the tail" on V-173 are not control surfaces. They serve to reduce the massive ground effect this airplane had on landing. They only moved upwards and were added later when the problem with landing was discovered. The stubby "wings" on either side are just elevons and are entirely in the prop slipstream to allow control at low speed. The props, by the way, rotate outwards to counteract the tip vortex, which significantly increases the effective wingspan. (Or should we call it "bodyspan" here?) | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 23:35 | history | edited | Pilothead | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 23:19 | history | edited | Pilothead | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 23:14 | history | answered | Pilothead | CC BY-SA 4.0 |