subject:"\[RCSE\] Ideal wing surface texture"

Re: [RCSE] Ideal wing surface texture

2000-01-05 Thread Walter Lynch

: Andrew Dignan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Ideal wing surface texture >I have been made aware that sometimes a rough wing texture can indeed >increase performance in full scale gliders.

Re: [RCSE] Ideal wing surface texture

2000-01-04 Thread John Roe

Message text written by "Derek Boyer" >The moral of the story is that Im being led to believe that smoother >is better even in our low-Re environment. Pretty well unsupported >reasoning, but beliefs arent always reasonable or wrong. For what it's worth, as this is purely second-hand... I ha

Re: [RCSE] Ideal wing surface texture

2000-01-03 Thread Moved by the wind.

Scobie Back when Michael Selig was doing wind tunnel test at Princeton he told me he had run test on this very thing. As I remember it smooth was best, but you might want to ask him. I did my own test by spraying hair spray on one wing and leaving the other smooth, I couldn't find any differe