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  1. mcrae0104

    Riblett on Twist

    In Riblett's GA Airfoils section "Design Notes for Tapered Wings," he asserts that NACA's conclusion that tapered wings stall at the tip first is invalid. The reason he gives is that not only the planform of the test specimens was tapered; the section thickness was tapered from root to tip. He...
  2. PiperCruisin

    NACA 6-series cusp

    I imagine this subject has been somewhat hashed out on the forum from what I've seen, but here it goes. I've been looking into some airfoils for a design, but starting to confuse myself (not an aero guy). I have Riblett's book and was comparing his airfoil to the 6-series using Javafoil...
  3. TinBender

    Excel based GA Airfoil coordinate generation for Windows

    GA Airfoils The attached Excel file will create .dat files at the click of a button. This uses the late Harry Riblett's method for airfoil generation. It will only work on Windows systems because I used Visual Basic for Applications to generate the files. It was originally written in Excel...
  4. clanon

    Harry Riblett practical tail's lift calculation...

    nevermind
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