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31 questions linked to/from How does chord length affect wing design?
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How can I calculate the rolling moment of an aileron for a given plane based on its performance?
Let's say I have an already-built airplane with known basic characteristics like weight, wing span and wing surface, and I can measure the time of all possible manoeuvres at different speeds.
How ...
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Is there a parameter that links the areas of the fuselage and control surfaces? [closed]
Do aircraft designers look at the ratio of how much fuselage surface area can be loaded onto a given unit of wing and tail surface area including elevator, aileron, rudder etc? (Possibly, the surfaces ...
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What is the chord of a wing?
In the answer to this question the author mentions the chord of a wing. What exactly is that, and how is it used in wing design?
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Are high lift wings bad for faster speeds
I notice a trend in many aircraft designs. If the aircraft was designed to go slowly but have shorter takeoffs/landings they use airfoils with a high lift.
However for long endurance flights they use ...
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How do I achieve a lower stall speed, and capture potential CLmax without enough elevator control authority?
I am running some analysis on a uav, and the results I have found show that with proposed modifications I am unable to trim at my previous $c_{L\:max}$ and thus originally designed stall speed (...
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How can we design a wing for cruising at very low speeds?
I was thinking about a simple super-light aircraft powered with a little low-power piston engine. Is there any way that we can design a wing so the aircraft flies very slow (like 25 km/h as minimum ...
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How does aspect ratio affect the stalling angle of the wing?
I have been trying to find a clear answer for this but haven't been able to do so. From what I understand this is linked to induced drag but I'm not able to link it.
Could someone shed some light on ...
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Does skin friction drag decrease with velocity?
The wings of subsonic planes have usually a very low surface area and aspect ratio as big as possible. However, in supersonic aircraft, wings with more wetted area (e.g delta wings) are used. Is this ...
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What's the theoretical background of the critical angle of attack?
The critical angle of attack seems to be at all (most?) airfoils around 15-20°. Why is that? Why is it in this range and not lower or higher? Is it just the result of optimizing airfoils? Or is it ...
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How does wing aspect ratio influence lift and drag?
I know simmilar questions are all over the internet (and this website too), but there's one thing that i just cannot comprehend and none of the articles i read could explain it properly.
According to ...
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Do wingtip vortices cause a decrease in the lift component of aerodynamic force, and do planes need to pull more AoA to compensate?
So, from what I know about wingtip vortices, they shift the angle of the relative airflow to where the effective angle of attack of the airfoil is lowered. Since the aerodynamic force is always ...
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Are larger airplanes more likely to stall?
Stalls happen when the boundary layer on top of a wing slows so much that it essentially becomes part of the airfoil.
My question is, as the wings on larger aircraft present a longer flow path for ...
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How to proceed in designing a catapult glider with maximum flight distance? [closed]
As a basis for this question, take the following catapult glider:
http://www.guillow.com/spaceshuttle.aspx
This model has low aspect ratio wings, a thick wing section and a relatively wide fuselage, ...
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Is it better to reduce drag or increase lift?
Essentially my question is, in general is it better to have a lower drag or a larger lift. I know lift to drag ratios are used as an indicator but I think these don't give the best picture. For ...
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What is the drag optimized wing form for given lift and bending moment?
I am trying to build a passive hydrofoil board.
Something like this:
I want to use wood and i am coming to the conclusion that i want to optimize drag for a given ...
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