SEN-449 August 4 2000

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News and Reports 2000 - second half
SCAT Electronic News 4 August 2000 issue 449

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Batiuk's Bog?  - Bogie
Blunt noses - Andressen
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Batiuk's Bog?
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As unofficial contact between the SEN and the Luddites, I offer the following 
from Al Hotard.  

The Lost Hills field is one big super dry desert without any water.  Right?  
Wrong!!  At the recent Max Men Summer Contest in July, a well known FAI 
flyler, whose initials are "GB" somehow managed to get his truck stuck in 
soft mud, up to the hub caps and had to be pulled out, believe it or not!  He 
was cutting across from one dirt road to another west of the flight line 
after the contest was over, when he sank down into the goo.  There seems to 
be underground steam no one knew about.  Now-----shall we name it "GB's 
Bayou,"  or "GB's Slough" or what???

Al Hotard.

At Thursday's meeting of the Luddites and the writer, it was told that Bob 
Van Nest pulled George out with his truck after which both replaced their 
trucks due to the goo gumming up things under the frames of their trucks.  
This bog is well west almost to the crops but south of them.  There is no 
indication of the bog from the surface of the ground.  The goo seems to be 
under a layer of dirt and sand.  The area probably will be visited this 
weekend at Hector's Saturday evening do.

Bill Bogart

 
Blunt noses
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Blunt nose airfoils tend to have a higher stall angle as well as higher lift 
slope.  I would assume the greater stall angle would be the major benefit 
for aerobatics.  It sure seemed to be the ticket for CL stunt.

There seems to be some confusion re the role of high lift slope stabs and 
stability.  It is difficult for a stab to do it's job of providing pitch 
stability in a "hands off" FF situation.  For 1 thing it's in the wing 
downwash (except for Doug Joyce).  Then the fuselage wake can cut it's 
effective AR in half, reducing lift slope.  Sharp LE also can reduce lift 
slope by as much as a factor of 2.

As a model goes toward stall the ideal stab would generate lift (higher lift 
slope than wing) faster than the wing.
Why does everyone except Bob White want a low lift slope stab?  It boggles 
the mind.

Look at the twin-fins.  They have generous AR + tip plates that increase the 
effective AR even more.

Another example of successful hi AR stab is Jasco (Zaic) Floater which was 
1st model to do 3, 10min maxes and one of the winningest models of all time.

A large wing AR with same fuselage & stab will have a higher tail volume 
than same model with it's lower AR wing, yet stability usually suffers as a 
result of 1. usually lower wing dihedral angles and 2. low stab AR.  ie wing 
lift slope increases but stab does not.

For the cost of building a hi AR, blunt LE stab one can prove to themselves 
which is the right approach.

No model should stall all the way to the ground, especially with VIT.

Good Luck,
          H

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