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How do I get rid of this chord line along the x-axis when importing an airfoil into XFLR5?
You most likely are importing the points with the wrong order.
Usually programs are looking for points to start at the TE and go clockwise along the lower surface to the LE and then back to the TE ...
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Are there any sources that contain information on the airfoils of the Boeing 737-500 and 737NG Aircraft?
No, this information is proprietary.
The public information about 737 foils is based on the original -100 model.
Further, it can be assumed that any modern aircraft with sufficient resources behind it ...
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Different Engine/Prop Sizes on Same Wing/Single Craft?
The Bird Innovator was an American four-engined executive amphibious airplane modified from a Consolidated PBY Catalina by the Bird Corporation.
During the late 1960s Forrest Bird and his Bird ...
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Different Engine/Prop Sizes on Same Wing/Single Craft?
No need to be so complicated, as long as you pair your engines, one on either side.
Putting a lighter engine nearer the wing tip may have been what Hugo Junkers had in mind with this aircraft, long ...
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Moving from 2D wing to 3D wing design
how would we approach it? It is not as if we would try all kinds of combinations of taper ratio and dihedral and compare all of them.
You're right.
Unless you are designing a radically new aircraft ...
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