Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-08 Thread Keith Watson
(pardon me if this is a duplicate, I didn't see the previous on get through...) I do like the carefree nature of EPP wings. Here is a tip for when you start flying with a composite wing -- learn to catch the plane by the nose. Now that I do that I'm much less concerned about putting (more) dent

Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-08 Thread Keith Watson
I do like the carefree nature of EPP wings. Here is a tip for when you start flying with a composite wing -- learn to catch the plane by the nose. Now that I do that I'm much less concerned about putting (more) dents in my composite wing. I agree that the Goblin and Dizzy Bird wings don't penet

Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-07 Thread rcsoar4fun
I saw that episode, those both needed to be building planes out of EPP... Kristopher - Original Message - From: "Brett Jaffee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Henke, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:52 P

Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-07 Thread Brett Jaffee
"Henke, Steve" wrote: > > >Did you ever see the episode of Junkyard Wars where they > built gliders? > > do you mean the bomb drop episode? Actually, there was another one where they built full size man-carrying gliders and launched them off a slope (the idea being to see how far down the slo

RE: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-07 Thread Henke, Steve
rom: Andrew E. Mileski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings widlerj wrote: > > So what are your suggestions for a different airfoil bearing in mind > that I can not get or maintain a truly accu

Re: [RCSE] airfoils for EPP wings

2002-02-07 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
widlerj wrote: > > So what are your suggestions for a different airfoil bearing in mind > that I can not get or maintain a truly accurate foil shape? I can > read polar graphs but have no idea how sensitive different airfoils > are to irregularities. *chuckle* Did you ever see the episode of Ju