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Re: Wing Tip Shape

Subject: Re: Wing Tip Shape
From: Tony Krzyzewski <tonyk@kaon.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 12:12:50
Hmmmph. three guesses who just shaped his second wing tip last night :-(

Tony

> I talked to an aerodynamacist about this, and he said pretty much the same
> thing. His advice was a reasonable radius from the LE into the end, and fly
> it straight back to the trailing edge. -also the top to bottom surface
> radius appears to be important -I plan to start with the LE radius and
> reduce that gradually to about 1/4dia near the TE. The bottom surface will
> just follow the shape produced by more or less straight lining between the
> "tip rib" and the tip plan form.


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