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Old February 21st 05, 08:55 PM
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Default Stall strips vs. Washout

I've noticed a lot of aircraft are designed to use washout at the tips
to control stall behaviour. The idea as it was explained was that they
wanted the inboard part of the wing to stall before the outboard part
so aileron authority could be maintained a little longer.

I've also seen mention of stall strips being installed inboard to try
to affect the same thing.

It seems to me that trying to impart a twist of only a few degrees into
a structure that large, and have it maintain that twist under load and
over time (as opposed to jigged on a bench) is a fairly hard thing to
do correctly.

Also, with the washout, aren't you in effect constantly flying around
with the whole wing at a non-optimal AOA since each part of the wing is
slightly different AOA as you move out on the span?

Since airfoils are a trade off, among other things, of lift, drag, and
range of AOA, wouldn't it be better to extend the stall strip approach
to just having a progressive (or piece wise) airfoil cross section with
a sharper leading edge in-board moving out to a smooth rounded leading
edge near the tips (and ailerons)? So you have a lower drag, reduced
AOA range inboard, and higher drag albiet wider range AOA outboard.
And have no twist in the wing.

Discuss

 




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