pictsidhe
Well-Known Member
Some of you may have noticed that I'm a little wary of designing a wing from scratch and getting it's stall characteristics acceptable. Half the trick is getting the inboard portion to stall first. Here's a great NASA paper about doing just that. Some of my Hurricane aero efforts will be to maintain it's reasonable stall characteristics at my lower Re.
It isn't all airfoils. The Fw190 had a famously vicious stall. At high speed. At low speed, it was apparently fairly tame. It's problem was aeroelasticity. Under high g, the wing would wash in. When it stalled, it stalled a tip...
It isn't all airfoils. The Fw190 had a famously vicious stall. At high speed. At low speed, it was apparently fairly tame. It's problem was aeroelasticity. Under high g, the wing would wash in. When it stalled, it stalled a tip...