Im lost again!

[Falcon500]

he he he,

I downloaded the Flight Model Work Book and I went at making a new airfile for my P-47D-23 for myself....
It expects me to the designers at Republic Aircraft at the time lol... Three days i still dont know and cant find what the root and tip thickness is.... not to mention what the length of the aileron is... Is there a Mecca ou there in which these crazy .air file builders meet?

Anyone with any info please reply, lol i also need the entire tail section (square footage)  

[Corsair Freak]

Same here,

I was tryin' to build the a new Airfile for Akemi's P-39N and I just scanned through the questions and gave up.  "I don't know what the dihedral is... wait, what the hell's a dihedral?"


Good Hunting,
Brandon

[Padser]

~S~

The dihedral is the angle between the upward (or downward!) lift of the wing and horizontal.



Low wing aircraft (such as most of our WW2 fighters) tend to have a larger dihedral to increase stability. High wing aircraft, such as modern Cessnas, etc., have much less as this type of aircraft is inherently more stable.

BTW - what's the flight model handbook and where do you get it from - it sounds interesting! I should get out more...

~S~
Pads

[Falcon500]

Cors: the wing dihedral of the P-39 is 4.00....

And Pads:

here is the FDWB download http://www.mudpond.us/utilities_index.html

[Padser]

Most neighbourly of you, Sir!

Toodle-pip

Pads