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    Limit and Ultimate loads - How do you apply the Factor of Safety?

    Hi, My design is to be a small single seat biplane of 510lbs gross weight and 108 sq feet wing area, with +4g and -2g as the Limit load factors, with speeds Vs 38mph, Va 76mph. Vc 85mph, Vd 120mph I realise these speeds are quite high for this gross weight, but I am just following Mr Stout's...
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    Richard Hiscocks book, Flight load calcs in chapter 5

    Hi Folks, Best regards to All - it's time for my biennial question:ermm: Same book but different chapter. In Chapter 5, on page 76, there is table 5.5; in the last two columns for E and G points on the envelope Mr Hiscocks has given for H. tail load, P,lb. n=1 the values -137 and -22 which I...
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    Richard Hiscocks Book: chordwise lift distribution calculations

    A fellow can stay silent and be thought a fool, or speak up and have it confirmed:ermm:, so here I am busy working through the calculations for determining chordwise lift load distributions. My maths is not great, but I am keen to fully understand the methods of analysis in qualitative terms and...
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    Hello folks, yet another joins the fold...

    Hi, What a terrific website! Someone once said that the gift of knowledge was unique in that the giver is not made poorer by the act, but the recipient is made so much the richer. This forum epitomises that sentiment, and I am excited to be apart of it. I have started designing a canard to meet...
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