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    Mike Patey - Scrappy's Wing

    I'm tempted to call this an extensible double slotted chord/airfoil with a double slotted flap -- when all is fully extended. The slats are used differently than the traditional way. He seems to understand all that and is using them to get his 'cp' where he wants it. It is very creative!, and...
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    ideal aerofoil

    As someone else said -- it is too broad. And usually not correct. Especially not usually correct if looking at stall speed, but it does depend on the airfoil design. You can have airfoils that have laminar flow at cruise, and at the same time handle Clmax nearly same dirty vs clean, and thus...
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    ideal aerofoil

    For ice protection, I would only want to use a blizzak tire for that.
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    ideal aerofoil

    Of course, the original question is ill-posed. Need requirements, and then the task is to find the 'best fit', i.e. the best airfoil for the defined objective(s). Others here have posted the same.
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