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I've noticed a lot of aircraft are designed to use washout at the tips
to control stall behaviour. The idea as it was explained was that they wanted the inboard part of the wing to stall before the outboard part so aileron authority could be maintained a little longer. I've also seen mention of stall strips being installed inboard to try to affect the same thing. It seems to me that trying to impart a twist of only a few degrees into a structure that large, and have it maintain that twist under load and over time (as opposed to jigged on a bench) is a fairly hard thing to do correctly. Also, with the washout, aren't you in effect constantly flying around with the whole wing at a non-optimal AOA since each part of the wing is slightly different AOA as you move out on the span? Since airfoils are a trade off, among other things, of lift, drag, and range of AOA, wouldn't it be better to extend the stall strip approach to just having a progressive (or piece wise) airfoil cross section with a sharper leading edge in-board moving out to a smooth rounded leading edge near the tips (and ailerons)? So you have a lower drag, reduced AOA range inboard, and higher drag albiet wider range AOA outboard. And have no twist in the wing. Discuss |
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