The Great Planes Spirit with the 2 Meter wing is what I have. I have used it on the original Spirit fuselage and also on a home-built fuselage modeled after the Gentle Lady. It flew much better on the sorta Gentle Lady fuselage.
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Conkling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:41 PM To: Andy Roberts Cc: Stickles, Kevin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [RCSE] Wing Question (Poly vs Di) Which Spirit? The Great Planes kit, and what size? .........bc ([EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.widomaker.com/~conk Williamsburg, VA 23185 On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Andy Roberts wrote: > Have many people put Spirit wings on other fuses? > Which fiberglass fuses will it work on? > Will it work on a glass fuse with a V-Tail? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stickles, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [RCSE] Wing Question (Poly vs Di) > > > I'm currently building a Spectra glider. I already have a Spirit wing that > I can use so I'm thinking of experimenting with the new wing. The question > I have for the group is what is the difference, performance-wise, between a > polyhedral wing and a dihedral wing, and is there a rule of thumb for > converting, i.e. if there is a 2 degree break at the middle and a 3 degree > break out at the ends for a polydehral wing, does that equate to a 5 degree > break in the middle for a dihedral wing? > > Kevin L. Stickles (CISSP) > Deputy Project Manager, EMS > DynCorp Systems & Solutions LLC > 11710 Plaza America Drive > Reston, VA 20190 > Work: (703) 261-4834 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home: (703) 830-0096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
