Article 27495 of rec.kites: Newsgroups: rec.kites Path: tug!andrew From: andrew@tug.com (Andrew Beattie) Subject: Re: Chevron progress (was Soft kite tuning) Organization: /usr/lib/news/organisation Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:43:44 GMT Message-ID: References: <9607100941.aa03230@tug.com> <4s10os$6h4@news.euro.net> andrew@tug.com (Andrew Beattie) writes: >It seems that pulling the nose down makes the kite faster and loads more >powerful (for the part of the sky where you can get away with it), but the >stall speed seems to be too high. Which leads me to a fundamental question for you aerodynamicists out there... What do I need to do to an airfoil to reduce it's stall speed? If I wanted a wing that stalled way down at 3mph of apparent wind, what would it look like? How do I make the onset of stall less abrupt (Hmmm... is there any way to come *out* of the stall more quickly too?) Andrew -- 7) Thou shalt never patent the bleeding obvious, lest the Gods heap burning coals on thy head. Long before thou wast conceved, the heavens were filled with many kinds of flying things beyond thy wildest imaginings. It has all been done before.