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Title: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Citabria on August 03, 2011, 12:54:29 PM
why do you need to use rudder when you begin or end a turn but not when you are established in the turn?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: M0nkey_Man on August 03, 2011, 01:32:28 PM
it bleeds speed?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Zeagle on August 03, 2011, 01:40:57 PM
To counter the adverse yaw when ailerons are deflected.

see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_yaw)
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: DaHand on August 03, 2011, 02:18:32 PM
To counter the adverse yaw when ailerons are deflected.

see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_yaw)

Most areo manufacturers model their aircraft in order to counteract that adverse effect without applying rudder.  And that yaw effect is really only on larger aircraft if I recall correctly.

Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Zeagle on August 03, 2011, 02:28:57 PM
While designs are created to minimize it, it is still there. Even the tailless designs of the Horten brothers still had adverse yaw.
Frise type ailerons, differential ailerons, spoilers, wing twist, and computer FBW designs are all used to counter it. The aircraft you mention that don't need rudder inputs probably fall into the FBW category.

Go grab a few hours in a 172 or similar then come back and let me know what you find  :D
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Ardy123 on August 03, 2011, 03:14:52 PM
keeping coordinated in you turns actually greatly improved your turn and e retention. Try it in AH, when you make a turn look a the ball and try and keep it centered, and you will be amazed.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: MachFly on August 03, 2011, 04:00:02 PM
Zeagle and Bunnies are correct.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: hitech on August 03, 2011, 04:05:03 PM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Ardy123 on August 03, 2011, 04:07:20 PM

err it was magically deleted.... nvrmind
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: JUGgler on August 03, 2011, 04:11:27 PM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

That would be the right wing, it is traveling further so it is moving more air!



JUGgler
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: kvuo75 on August 03, 2011, 04:21:02 PM
why do i think that's a trick question. I'm guessing both are making the same lift.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Stang on August 03, 2011, 04:51:55 PM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

If it's an F-4u, and the flaps are down, the answer is neither... The hover engines are just engaged.

 :D
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Vinkman on August 03, 2011, 04:54:52 PM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

The outer (right) wing. It's moving faster.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Nypsy on August 03, 2011, 05:29:09 PM
Common sense would say the right wing.
At the start of the bank however don't the ailerons kill the lift on the left wing and increase it on the right?
Is this what causes the yaw action, or is it from the increased drag of the left wing aileron?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: kvuo75 on August 03, 2011, 06:12:38 PM
Common sense would say the right wing.
At the start of the bank however don't the ailerons kill the lift on the left wing and increase it on the right?
Is this what causes the yaw action, or is it from the increased drag of the left wing aileron?

adverse yaw is from the extra lift.. byproduct of lift is drag.

The outer (right) wing. It's moving faster.

see if one is making more lift though, wouldn't the plane keep rolling? thats why i figured both are the same in stable turn.  :headscratch:
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Krusty on August 04, 2011, 10:33:57 AM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

I seem to recall a comment that the wing produces the same lift no matter what the speed. So wouldn't the answer be "both produce the same"? Otherwise you'd be rolling into the turn or away from the turn. Also, this assumes the inner wing is not stalled, which disrupts/kills the lift on that wing.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Trukk on August 04, 2011, 10:41:26 AM
Does the aircraft have any dihedral?  If it does the inner/lower wing might actually be producing more vertical lift.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: dtango on August 04, 2011, 10:47:14 AM
My answer to Fester's original question:

(http://thetongsweb.net/images/cneq2.jpg)  

:devil

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As for hitech's question, very evil indeed.  Almost as evil as what creates lift.   :devil

The answer of course is "it depends" ;).  There's a whole host of other factors besides differences in relative velocity between inside and outside wings... sideslip, yaw, dihedral, cross-flow, power effects, vortex side-wash just to name a few.

For Krusty & kvuo, rolling moment = 0 doesn't mean that the wings lift are equal because there are various other variables that contribute to rolling moments.  
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: hitech on August 04, 2011, 11:05:13 AM
My answer to Fester's original question:

(http://thetongsweb.net/images/cneq2.jpg)  

:devil

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As for hitech's question, very evil indeed.  Almost as evil as what creates lift.   :devil

The answer of course is "it depends" ;).  There's a whole host of other factors besides differences in relative velocity between inside and outside wings... sideslip, yaw, dihedral, cross-flow, power effects, vortex side-wash just to name a few.

For Krusty & kvuo, rolling moment = 0 doesn't mean that the wings lift are equal because there are various other variables that contribute to rolling moments.  

Your a party pooper, btw the form of the equation you posted also can answer my question because the sum of all torque about the roll axis must be zero in the turn I described.

Also for most of the planes in our game, My gut tells me the prop is the primary torque creator hence it would be the wing that counters the engine torque.

HiTech

Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Timppa on August 04, 2011, 11:15:52 AM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/timppa/th_lomcevak_a_GIFSoupcom.gif)
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Zeagle on August 04, 2011, 11:17:34 AM
it is already, see SpitXVI, P-51, F4u and P-38    :devil  :bolt:

But seriously, that kind of maneuverability has to do with a !@#$ load of thrust from the prop combined with a lot of prop wash over the tail, and low overall mass. The plane becomes kinda like a helicopter...I mean they can and do stand on their tails. Amazing to see. RC or full scale.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: 68ZooM on August 04, 2011, 11:22:46 AM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/timppa/th_lomcevak_a_GIFSoupcom.gif)

A ton of power to weight ratio is what makes that bird do silly tricks.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: dtango on August 04, 2011, 11:24:41 AM
Your a party pooper,

lol, i should have left my statement at your question was  :devil  :devil  :devil and stopped there.  But my mother's teaching of not watching people run around with physics scissors got the best of me!
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: dtango on August 04, 2011, 11:26:16 AM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)

:D you'll have to ask hitech & pyro about that.   :devil  :devil  :devil
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: kvuo75 on August 04, 2011, 05:30:23 PM
For Krusty & kvuo, rolling moment = 0 doesn't mean that the wings lift are equal because there are various other variables that contribute to rolling moments.  


ahh indeed. see, I either thought it was a trick question, or a very complex question.. It turns out to be complex :)

I did not even think of propeller torque.  :aok
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: LCADolby on August 04, 2011, 05:31:11 PM
My answer to Fester's original question:

(http://thetongsweb.net/images/cneq2.jpg)  

:devil

-----------

As for hitech's question, very evil indeed.  Almost as evil as what creates lift.   :devil

The answer of course is "it depends" ;).  There's a whole host of other factors besides differences in relative velocity between inside and outside wings... sideslip, yaw, dihedral, cross-flow, power effects, vortex side-wash just to name a few.

For Krusty & kvuo, rolling moment = 0 doesn't mean that the wings lift are equal because there are various other variables that contribute to rolling moments.  
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1O_GXw1fVmQ/TPtp0-24zNI/AAAAAAAAAE0/uZkyrd98nj8/s1600/bruce-conner-design-for-mankind-bombhead-412x516-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: grizz441 on August 04, 2011, 05:52:42 PM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

If engine is a clockwise spinner (engine torque force counter-clockwise) then the bottom wing will be producing a little more lift based purely on balancing the moments.

That's what I thunk anyways.  I'm probably rong.  
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: JOACH1M on August 04, 2011, 05:55:19 PM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/timppa/th_lomcevak_a_GIFSoupcom.gif)
Ya...let's find that plane in the hanger....


What plane number is it again?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Brooke on August 04, 2011, 11:49:34 PM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/timppa/th_lomcevak_a_GIFSoupcom.gif)

Have you watched this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3HPaXGUDrM&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: 68ZooM on August 05, 2011, 12:09:05 AM
Have you watched this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3HPaXGUDrM&feature=player_embedded

no fair comparison, Lepape is godlike in a P47  :rock    that goes for Jug to  :rock
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: icepac on August 05, 2011, 12:13:41 AM
Dtango, why this is not possible in AH2 ? ;)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/timppa/th_lomcevak_a_GIFSoupcom.gif)

Lumshevak?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: dtango on August 05, 2011, 01:22:07 AM
Lumshevak?
Close enough :).  Lomcevak.
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: DaHand on August 05, 2011, 01:51:12 AM
I seem to recall a comment that the wing produces the same lift no matter what the speed. So wouldn't the answer be "both produce the same"? Otherwise you'd be rolling into the turn or away from the turn. Also, this assumes the inner wing is not stalled, which disrupts/kills the lift on that wing.


Even in level, steady flight, there are small differences in each wings lift, especially at slower speeds.   :salute
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: 100Coogn on August 05, 2011, 02:31:42 AM
If a plane is in a steady 45 deg banked level turn to the left.  Which wing is producing more lift. :devil

HiTech

Left wing.  That is all...
got a 50% at being right  :banana:
Coogan
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: clerick on August 05, 2011, 02:33:13 AM
Left wing.  That is all...
got a 50% at being right  :banana:
Coogan

Read further to find the answer
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: 100Coogn on August 05, 2011, 02:37:19 AM
Just reread the posts.  Looks like I'm right.

Coogan
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Krupinski on August 05, 2011, 04:53:53 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBgHv_GgAW0
 
:noid
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Raptor05121 on August 12, 2011, 02:16:35 AM
next question, alex?
Title: Re: Flight modelling trivia
Post by: Citabria on August 12, 2011, 09:11:37 AM
How do you stay wings level and coordinated while upside down at the top of a loop?