Paul Breed wrote:
Then there's the agony of deciding whether to put the rudder on the
right side
or the left side of the boom...
I'm currently living in The Peoples Republic of California, so it's got
to go on the Left side ;-)
Isn't that the place where they elected 'The Terminator' as Gov?
Give
Putting the rudder on a V-mount works fine, except striking the rudder
on the ground may cause it to break. I suppose you could have the V-mounted
rudder mostly above the boom, which would minimize the torques on the
V-mount from a ground strike. But rudder airloads will torque the boom more.
My
Mark Drela sent:
http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Medium/EC87-0014-8.jpg
Hey, wait a sec, that thing is just a rib-constructed Supergee with an ugly
pod and a big prop. Are you sure this is a photo of a full scale aircraft?
:-)
I think the guy inside is just a modified "Hanz the p
>I'm building the new tail for my solar plane and I'm thinking I'll make a
>Drela style carbon V mount for the vstab.
The original carbon V-mount was on the Daedalus HPA, on both the stab and the
rudder:
http://trc.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Daedalus/Medium/EC88-0059-002.jpg
http://trc.dfrc.na
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