09-07-2020, 04:35 PM
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Mad for modrocs
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Join Date: May 2019
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 71
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Originally Posted by Ez2cDave
Eric,
What if you were to invert the wing planform and add it to the existing planform, creating an "imaginary" elliptical planform, "do the math", and then divide by 2 ?
It MIGHT be necessary to, "theoretically double", the wingspan, also.
Just some theories . . .
Dave F.
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Seems logical...but I guess math formulas must have a logic all their own. Doubling the platform and dividing by 2 gives me a wing aerodynamic center of 1/8" back from the LE. Way off.
So odd that with all the elliptical winged BGs and RGs and model planes that have been designed, there is no calculator that will take elliptical tip chords into account, only square tip chords.
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