rtfm
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I'm fondly clinging to the hope that I may be able to build a wing without having to cut into that lovely laminar flow surface to fit ailerons - hence my question about using the h-stabs as ailerons (in another thread). So what about this idea? Is this workable or not?
What if I built a wing without ailerons, and added wing tips which can swivel in pitch? This is just an embryonic idea, and I've not really given the detailed mechanics of it much thought. As a first take, the thought struck me that there would be wingtip vortices to contend with. So we could add winglets, and add the aileron tips beyond them. So the wing airflow would "end" with the winglets, and the aileron tips could swivel pitch-wise beyon that. Great moment arm, so they wouldn't need to be very large. Swivel the entire wing section, so more power than regular ailerons.
Comments?
Duncan
I'm fondly clinging to the hope that I may be able to build a wing without having to cut into that lovely laminar flow surface to fit ailerons - hence my question about using the h-stabs as ailerons (in another thread). So what about this idea? Is this workable or not?
What if I built a wing without ailerons, and added wing tips which can swivel in pitch? This is just an embryonic idea, and I've not really given the detailed mechanics of it much thought. As a first take, the thought struck me that there would be wingtip vortices to contend with. So we could add winglets, and add the aileron tips beyond them. So the wing airflow would "end" with the winglets, and the aileron tips could swivel pitch-wise beyon that. Great moment arm, so they wouldn't need to be very large. Swivel the entire wing section, so more power than regular ailerons.
Comments?
Duncan
