while thinking about flight dynamics and airfoils, it dawned on me that elevons on a flying wing, such as my daw me-163 komet, don't really function aerodynamically like elevators. the stabilizer/elevator counteracts the moment-force of a cambered wing, which typically causes the plane to pitch forward, as well as a non-neutral cg. it occurs to me that elevons don't conteract the wing moment-force, but by changing the airfoil shape directly, they directly change the wing moment force, and the pitch of the aircraft. elevons directly affect the moment-force, whereas the elevator affect the counter-balancing force. does any of this make sense? is any of it correct? RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
