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New Wing

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Jan Carlsson

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Have made an alternative wing to this Beauty, to get the benefits of composite wing, now the question, how is the trailing edge made thicker? I mean how far is the extra thickness smoothed out to the true airfoil(s)? What is the minimum practical thickness of trailing edge? .125"?

Using freese stile aileron and single slotted flap, can the drag be lowered by making the control surface thicker at the leading edge/max thickness of aileron/flap? Any one tested this?

http://www.bd5.com/BedeDesign09.jpg


With this new airfoils the span and wing area is a little larger, to keep the stall speed the same. What to make out of the wingtips? Hoerner style or up bend/back swept like Melmoth2?

Jan
 

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