Discussion in rec.models.rc.soaring usenet group reveals that enthusiastic local Liftdistribution software "experts" do not understand (at least in a satisfying intuitive way) why the "Local Cl" graph tends to peak up when local chord become narrow and decrease when local chord become large (the situation at the root of strongly tapered wings). It is clear that this is the way that Liftroll responds but it is not quite clear and intuitive why this is. Could you provide us an insight as to why Local Cl increases as local chord gets smaller (tips) and decreases when local chord is larger (root)? Does the expression that gets plotted on the Local Cl graph include local chord as a term in the denominator (thereby making the plotted expression larger when local chord is smaller)? Is there some other interesting (and intuitive) reason why the Local Cl graph has this behavior? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
