Todd

Further on your experience.

A number of model airplanes I have seen had very rapid roll off as the
airspeed was reduced approaching the stall. On landing this caused the
wing to drop and bird cartwheel.

One solution was to glue a piece of string along the crown of the air
foil.

Another was to put a wedge shaped piece of balsa on the wing leading
edge near the fuselage.

Both seemed to work ok and made the birds flyable by new bees.

Same techniques will work on full size aircraft.

Big John
Pilot ROCAF


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:51:10 -0500, Todd Pattist
wrote:

Richard Lamb wrote:

Sounds like the round head rivets are acting like turbulators.

My glider uses a strip of tape that looks like Dymo labeling
tape with a string of periods punched into it to turbulate
the flow.
Todd Pattist
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