Morgans schreef:


"Brian Whatcott" wrote

I could even go a little further: if you get yourself in a situation
when you have to deploy your considerable engineering skills in
evaluating Re, it is because you forgot to use your even more
considerable judgment is selecting well-liked, useful, relevent airfoils.

:-)
Amen!

Ya define the mission, and how fast you think you will go and look at
the list of airfoils used on airplanes of similar speed and mission.

And that's the lines along which I was thinking, until this Reynolds
thing crossed my way. My gratitude to all who responded, I have received
a powerful lot to put under my thinking cap for the next couple of
weeks/months/years

KA