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Colin Thatcher designed CX wings for his favorite style of flying: docile. Since he wanted to make the airplane easy to fly - for...

" " Yes, Ellipse has a beautiful wing, almost elliptical. To be precise, Ellipse wing is almost the same planform as the Schumann wing...

The Market likes Hershey-bar wings. You're right that it's seldom an optimized lift distribution priority. Builders like near...

The Delta Stingray was an 80% scale based upon the Dyke Delta. Lowell Borchers devoted 6,000 hours to building it 70% plywood, 20%...

Single-seat version of the dyke delta I'd say. I like it.

Even the gentle curves of a Bulldog fuselage will stiffen skins and reduce "oil-canning." A friend flies his Zenith 601 up to 600 hours...

Dear Revan, From the opposite perspective, ailerons that droop with flaps provide a shallower angle of attack for the outer wing panels...

Dear Cluttonfred, You don't even need to build an assym' horizontal tail. The first version of Blohm und Voss' 141 had a horizontal...

On the visibility questions with the Piana-Canova, I think it's important to remember that even his designs were not pure diamond...

Over on www.secretprojects.co.uk, we have a thread entitled "Goodyear's Inflatoplanes" in the after 1945 forum. We discuss Goodyear's...

Caution: Most of the fabric currently sold as "ballistic cloth" has diverged from the original Military Specification for the ballistic...

Dear aircar, The Swiss 'manta ray' was built by Prospective Concepts. Plenty of photos and explanations on their website. They also...

Dear Cluttonfred, Junkers flaps and ailerons work best at low airspeeds. They remain effective at low air speeds because they are...

Good point! One wag sketched a (ficticious) Grumman Goose with only one engine. Frankly, that is the simplest way to understand Dr...

OP, the primary reason for all drooped outer leading edges, slats, slots, vortex generators, wing twist, etc. is to reduce the angle of...