Hi Everybody
Would appreciate any critics on my initial design.
As you can notice I am a CATIA beginner. Below the wing the fuselage surface shows wrinkles I am not able to correct.
Any solutions?
I am drawing the skin with Multi surface sections, lots of bulkheads (three under the wing with straight vertical lines below the wing) and three guides (top guide, lower guide and a side guide that is a straight line under the wing)
Anybody thinks the tail is nonsense?
I thought that calculating the tail boundary layer thickness and investigating at which angle the horizontal and vertical boundary layer start reducing their mutual interference I can aim at fairly drag competitive tail design if I use a ample curvature at the intersection.
Does such a tail only make sense for twin engine planes?.
I thought I could build the whole tail in a single mold bending graphlite rod around the intersection corners and get a reasonable weight for the whole tail.
The tail incidence will be variable in flight.
I love the idea of attaching the landing gear to the engine mount making the mechanics of a suspension system fairly easy. Do you think the gear legs are bend backwards too strongly? The bend is imposed by the location of the firewall.
Would appreciate any critics on my initial design.
As you can notice I am a CATIA beginner. Below the wing the fuselage surface shows wrinkles I am not able to correct.
Any solutions?
I am drawing the skin with Multi surface sections, lots of bulkheads (three under the wing with straight vertical lines below the wing) and three guides (top guide, lower guide and a side guide that is a straight line under the wing)
Anybody thinks the tail is nonsense?
I thought that calculating the tail boundary layer thickness and investigating at which angle the horizontal and vertical boundary layer start reducing their mutual interference I can aim at fairly drag competitive tail design if I use a ample curvature at the intersection.
Does such a tail only make sense for twin engine planes?.
I thought I could build the whole tail in a single mold bending graphlite rod around the intersection corners and get a reasonable weight for the whole tail.
The tail incidence will be variable in flight.
I love the idea of attaching the landing gear to the engine mount making the mechanics of a suspension system fairly easy. Do you think the gear legs are bend backwards too strongly? The bend is imposed by the location of the firewall.
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