Sockmonkey
Well-Known Member
Ok, so far every biplane setup I've seen tends to have wings with a rather low aspect ratio and spaced a certain way.
Now I'm told that having the stagger with the top wing forward is more efficient and that there is a formula for calculating how much vertical and horizontal space there needs to be between them.
What I'm wondering is, what is that proportion and is it workable to have a bunch of much smaller high-aspect wings rather than four big ones?
I've seen those louver-like wing setups on other planes but those designs all seem to crowd them together for the purposes of STOL which results in a draggy wing setup.
So I'm wondering, if you had a stack of small high-aspect ratio wings and spaced them apart enough for them not to interfere with each other could you keep the drag reasonable?
Now I'm told that having the stagger with the top wing forward is more efficient and that there is a formula for calculating how much vertical and horizontal space there needs to be between them.
What I'm wondering is, what is that proportion and is it workable to have a bunch of much smaller high-aspect wings rather than four big ones?
I've seen those louver-like wing setups on other planes but those designs all seem to crowd them together for the purposes of STOL which results in a draggy wing setup.
So I'm wondering, if you had a stack of small high-aspect ratio wings and spaced them apart enough for them not to interfere with each other could you keep the drag reasonable?
