Jim

There was a group (don't remember who, could have been NASA????)
sometime after the War who ran tests on the mustang wing and concluded
it was not laminar. Not sure now if this was from wind tunnel tests or
computer simulation? Also not sure what their object was, maybe just
too much time on their hands?

Do know that it paid off rather rapidly in a stall. Much faster than a
Clark Y type of airfoil. Also in cruise you would climb several
hundred feet above your cruise altitude and in a shallow descent back
to that altitude pick up 10 mph + which the bird would hold if you
were careful and held a constant attitude. Was told (bar talk) that
was a characteristic of a laminar flow wing????

Just more trivia for the grist mill.

Big John

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:00:54 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


Larry Smith wrote:

Aluminum and compound curves don't mix.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bull****.

Just because most who homebuild have no English wheel, or shrinking hammer
skills, or that kit makers have not invested in the molds and dies to stamp
parts, does not mean that they can not be done. Do you mean that the
Mustang and Spitfire have no compound curves? Every one I have seen are
loaded with them.

Also, your comment that aluminum and laminar flows don't mix is equally full
of ****. Mustang was laminar flow, right?

As usual, you are in left field.