[WWI] Airfoil Needed

[Douglas Anderson]

Yeah, forgot about that thing called Reynolds Number. How silly of me. 

Thayer Syme <thayers at flyrc.com> wrote:  At 11:44 AM 9/15/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>your correct douglas there have been numerous articles on the 
>airfoil thing ... but yes the original airfoils always work better.

If that isn't a big can-o-worms I don't know what is.

I will agree that the original airfoil is always better if you are 
building a static model, but depending on the scale you are building 
for flying, I would suggest that the scale airfoil will not always 
fly in a scale fashion. How can this be? Quite simply Reynold's 
numbers and wing loading do interesting things as you scale a model up or down.

Thayer
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