At 10:33 PM 10/23/00 -0400, Tail Heavy wrote: > Let me try to understand . > Incidence is the angle of attack of the wing . No..angle of attack is an flight condition that only matters when the plane is flying. It's the angle of the relative wind to the wing, and is independent of the wing's angle to anything else. When I use my incidence >meter to set a wings incidence I do this with respect to the tail ( level on >the horizonal stab ) > Decalage is the difference in angle between the Horizonal stab and >wing . I saw the posted definition as angle between the two major planes - >wing and stab on monoplanes , wings on biplane yada yada .. > >Still sounds like same thing . The reason it sounds like the same thing is that usually, it is. Usually the angle of incidence of the stab as related to the fuselage is zero. Therefore, the incidence between wing and fuse is the same as the decolage between wing and the stab, and you can just be lazy and call incidence and decolage the same thing, which we pretty much all do. Brett ____________________________________________________________________________ Brett Jaffee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brett's Slope and Power Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaffee OnTheWay Quake 2 server utility: http://www.planetquake.com/ontheway The Unoffical Extra 300 Home Page: http://www.bayarea.net/~nathan/extra300/ ____________________________________________________________________________ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
